I was an early adopter of Things and I too have been disappointed with the multi-year march toward over-the-air synching. One of the things that suggests they haven't taken the issues seriously involves their current support for opportunistic synching over a local network using Bonjour discovery. The problem is, it is not encrypted — the entire contents of your database is sent in the clear on the local network. When the problem has been raised with them they have been dismissive, responding it is easily fixed by simply securing the Wifi network with a password. What that does to prevent the hundreds of others who use the same Wifi network from snooping on your data is not clear.

Fingers crossed they truly have re-architected to something useful. Sure, synching presents some challenges, but it is hard not to wonder how multiple programmers need over 2 years to add their #1 needed feature.