Why ADM is a good idea with poor implementation?
Posted by cnewtonne-groups
on 2/14/2006
cnewtonne-groups
2/14/2006 2:26 pm
I have developed interest in PIMs or outliners over a period of 2 years now. I have tried not less than 50 apps and actually purchased 4 of them. My first was ADM. Even though, good in concept, this application is poorly implemented. Not only that, this post is a word of caution to those who are considering using it to hold off. Any PIM or DB solution MUST be built on rock solid engine to save the data, secure it, recover it, and compress it. You can have the most glamorous GUI built on top, but if the engine is poor, how good is the GUI? When I used ADM, then, I lost some of my data. I worked with developer who is normally pretty responsive, but they for some reason kept insisting that issue can not be duplicated. It was about 10 months later when they released betas and acknowledged the issue. Till this day, this application can not be trusted with your data. Also, security is a major loop whole, you can simply right click on a adm file and choose open with notepad. This is it. Your data is right there readable by humans. Passwords, private notes, trade secrets are all visible. Compression?! Do not even mention it.
My issue here is somehow major. End users are taken by the nice looking buttons, bars, and the funky stuff. But, you need not invest your $$ with one of the most expensively priced applications only to find out that you can not event secure your data. It took a person like myself to pay $120, use it for 4 months, loose data, gets denined the issue, feel so bad about it, and finally give it up. If such experience appeals to you, go ahead and get it.
My issue here is somehow major. End users are taken by the nice looking buttons, bars, and the funky stuff. But, you need not invest your $$ with one of the most expensively priced applications only to find out that you can not event secure your data. It took a person like myself to pay $120, use it for 4 months, loose data, gets denined the issue, feel so bad about it, and finally give it up. If such experience appeals to you, go ahead and get it.
daly_de_gagne
2/14/2006 2:44 pm
I am sorry that your experience with ADM was so unsatisfactory. For clarification, what was the latest version/build of ADM you used?
Daly
Daly
srdiamond15
2/14/2006 9:10 pm
<Till this day, this application can not be trusted with your data.>-cnewtonne
I agree with you completely and with your sense that "this is something major."
But to me, what you describe here is worse than the product's shortcomings:
When people mention flaws that the developer doesn't have a solution for, the developer ignores the comments, loses the e-mail containing the criticism or bug report, or denies the problem. This is a pattern of willful behavior, not mere negligence.
Stephen R. Diamond
I agree with you completely and with your sense that "this is something major."
But to me, what you describe here is worse than the product's shortcomings:
When people mention flaws that the developer doesn't have a solution for, the developer ignores the comments, loses the e-mail containing the criticism or bug report, or denies the problem. This is a pattern of willful behavior, not mere negligence.
Stephen R. Diamond