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I'd much prefer a unified view instead of sync. No connection? No problem, show me what I have in my local copy. Admittedly, there's no redundancy with unified views.

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Kind of like the old Newton soup view (instead of a memory card in the slot you have the "cloud").

Explanation: The Newton showed all the entries / files on the Newton plus any entries / files on the card as one view. Pull out the card and those entries disappeared.

That's pretty interesting. I wonder why this approach was never re-done with iPhone and MobileMe (Contact sync and Calendaring have big applications here). Perhaps there are important unsolved problems I'm overlooking.

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