The ancient Now Contact and Now Up-to-Date are being reborn as a unified Now X. Well, they will if Now X ever gets out of beta. It’s been in beta almost as long as GMail. I’m not kidding!
I think I’ll skip the discussion about how meaningless the Now X name is, they’ll find out soon enough when people who don’t know the sordid history behind these products say, “What the hell does Now X do?” There is absolutely no indication in the name as to the function of the product. Fail!
But don’t get smug. iCal and Address Book have far less functionality than Now products had 15 years ago. Shameful.
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