The View From Here

Still FAR to com­plex for the aver­age user, Google attempts to “clar­ify” the com­plex­i­ties of their Google Apps product. Via: Why Google Apps Users Miss Out on Reg­u­lar Gmail Features—and Some Solu­tions [Annoyances] If you’ve taken the leap and hosted your domain email and other ser­vices with Google Apps, no doubt you’ve noticed that you miss out on ser­vices that “reg­u­lar” accounts get: like Google Reader, Voice, Wave, Ana­lyt­ics, and right now, Buzz. Here’s why: After com­plain­ing about the dis­par­i­ties on a recent episode of This Week in Google, a help­ful Googler unof­fi­cially got in touch to clar­ify. Let’s call her/him “Help­ful McGoogler.” Here’s what HM said. To the user, it may appear that there are three types of Google accounts: Gmail accounts, Google accounts, and Google Apps (for your domain) accounts. In truth, there’s only one kind of account: a Google Account. Help­ful McGoogler explains: Abstract the idea of a “Google Account” from being asso­ci­ated with Gmail or Google Apps. You can tie ANY email address to a “Google Account.” Check out https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount and notice that it asks you for your “cur­rent email address.” So let’s say I go to school [ ... ]