I did go back and read the marketing text and Apple did not promise to sync between users, only machines. In the end,address book server simply allows you to do the synching that MobileMe has allowed subscribers to do for years. It is valuable to an organization that isn’t going to purchase .me accounts for everyone. Get your address book from work while at home.
But I agree, people want to share a centralized directory between users. There is always ABS 2.0 I suppose.
One does have to wonder about calling out the feature, [i]”Access to client address books anywhere there is a Web connection”[/i] from page 10 of the Address Book Server Admin. I don’t find a web interface for a web browser anywhere. Are they trying to be clever b/c CardDAV is based on web protocols?
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