Compared to ACT!, vipOrbit is a bargain, but it may be a bit pricey for casual consumer use. There are two issues I still have with vipOrbit.
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The software will keep track of all of your communications-email, calls, instant messaging, social networks-for a given contact, but only if you use vipOrbit as the hub for those communications. The one caveat I have is that you have to use it consistently in order to get the most value out of it. In my opinion, it’s an invaluable tool for a salesperson or business professional. It’s simultaneously a way to segregate relationships into logical groupings like co-workers, family, golf team, fantasy football, and others, while also helping you understand the interconnected “six degrees of separation” relationships between the people you know. Ironically, Muhney built vipOrbit around the concept of orbits before Google introduced the idea of “circles” for the Google+ social network. Like ACT!, vipOrbit is about more than maintaining a database of names and addresses. Information is automatically synced (for a fee) between the Mac, iPhone, and iPad versions, so any changes made on any of the devices or platforms are reflected across all of them.
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With the Mac version, adding and editing information is much easier and more efficient. Creating and editing contacts on an iPhone or iPad, however, was still less than ideal, and meant that my primary productivity platform-the MacBook Air-was left out of the loop. A year later, vipOrbit introduced an iPad version, and the ability to seamlessly sync information between the two. The vipOrbit iPhone app was introduced in early 2011. He recognized a need, and went to work to apply his experience in contact and relationship management to develop an iOS app to fill the void.
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Muhney loves his iPhone, but he didn’t like the default Contacts app in iOS.