[I've harped on this before. Warning.]
I wirelessly synced my phone — a Sony Ericsson — via Bluetooth (BT) with Mac OS from 2003-2008.
Then in 2008 I got an iPhone and lost this capability because Apple saw fit to disable BT sync.
BT too slow for music/movies? Fine, give us the choice to sync contacts, which are typically thousands of times smaller. My Sony Ericsson would sync in usually 5-10 seconds.
It was so simple, so elegant. I’d get home, click the Sync Now icon in my menu bar, and everything would be done while the phone sat in my pocket.
If I had to guess, I’d say Apple disabled this to sell Mobile Me, a very “Microsoft” thing to do.
