Hacker News Reader

I'm still using iCal and vCard for this, by way of simple open source apps on mobile and desktop synced by WebDAV. Even use them for tasks/todos and notes (vjournal).

Always amazes me people are still rolling their own versions of these standards, the problem was solved years ago.

View on HN

But there’s no vendor lock-in with open standards…

There is that.

Am I misunderstanding what "open standard" means? Why don't vCard and iCalendar count?

I was being sarcastic. vCard and iCal are open standards - and that is probably why there are not used by many. Because many vendors like vendor lock-in.

Got it - thought you were saying vendor lock-in meant the standards were de facto not open (which seemed unfair, the standards are transparent and not unusually difficult to implement).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com