[whpalmer4]

Possibly it could be, but as I recall the iCal sync support was done as a way of getting one's data onto a mobile device, and using the iCal sync framework was an easy way to get instant functionality with any device that was supported by iSync. This was functionality that Omni wanted to provide, and so they did. If the iPhone SDK had been available to developers at that time, who knows if they would have bothered with the iCal route. My impression is that they feel obligated to support it, but if it wasn't already in the code, no one there would be fighting to put it in. Obviously, I don't speak for Omni, and I haven't had any conversations with anyone at Omni that would give substance to this belief, but it seems to me that we see plenty of talk about things they would like to do, and the only time iCal enters into the conversation is when it would enable something they want to do (like time-based notifications on the iPhone/iPod in 1.5.2).