Jeff Hobbs at ldopa.net explains in some detail why he is ditching 30 Boxes and why Google’s calendar is better than iCal, “which for years has been my Gold Standard of calendaring apps”.

He lays out five reasons for preferring the Google offering, but is particularly taken with the Daily Agenda feature:

Every day, Google Calendar can send you an email at 5 AM laying out the events of the rest of your day. This is killer, it’s like Google just hired a personal secretary for everyone on Earth.

And he sees a long-term upside in this too:

And once people realize that they don’t actually need Microsoft Office to Get Things Done, they’ll soon realize that they don’t actually need Microsoft Windows either.

Then you can read Matthew Hollingsworth’s post at Nontrivial Exercises.

He explains in some detail why 30 Boxes is much better than Google’s calendar.