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> their organization name was being used in lieu of
> a circle when they tried to share something.
(1) is okay if their users don't get the quickest rollout of new services, it's just a nice hosted email/calendar/docs solution. Users of (1) probably have personal GMail accounts they use for personal stuff, anyway.
(2) is confused whenever their me@mydomain.com email account doesn't act 100% like a regular GMail account.
Google has to cater to (1) because that's the whole point of Google Apps -- but that means that (2) gets slower rollouts of features that (1) might not appreciate. Perhaps if there were a different product, aimed toward the individual rather than the organization, this type of confusion could be avoided.
In the case of (1) the biggest issue I see is when people from an organization leave. It'll be interesting to see how Google handles that in Google+ for Apps users.
As an example, right now, when deleting a Google Apps account all of the user's shared docs, calendars, emails, etc. are deleted. I'm not sure if there's a way to preserve information or transition ownership easily.
For organizations like schools I could easily envision someone wanting to take their Google+ content with them once they graduate. For companies there's usually a mix of content that should be removed and preserved that's specific to that organization.
For my personal domain I do want Google Apps features to have parity with GMail. It's not that I don't understand the difference. It's that I don't want to split my information between multiple online identities.
> In the case of (1) the biggest issue I see is when people from an organization leave.
> [...] when deleting a Google Apps account all of the user's shared docs,
> calendars, emails, etc. are deleted.
> For my personal domain I do want Google Apps features to have parity with GMail.
> It's not that I don't understand the difference. It's that I don't want to split
> my information between multiple online identities.
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(I've been eagerly waiting for 2 years)
Let me unashamedly open the traditional Google+ invite begging thread.
paul.bridger, gmail. Much obliged!
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=33314
"Shared documents created by the user will be deleted within five days unless ownership is reassigned. You can reassign ownership of all documents created by the user before deleting the account. If you only need to save some documents, spreadsheets, or presentations, ask the user to reassign ownership of selected documents prior to deleting the account."
Shared calendars aren't deleted. Email seems to be unless steps are taken to export the data prior to account deletion, etc. etc.
It'll be interesting to see their take on Google+ content.
It's a minor nuisance but switching it around and routing everything to my apps account solved that inconsistency.
Could you elaborate on that? Does the "Send mail as" feature in gmail not work sometimes?
That's probably fine in most cases but I was getting inconsistent results when people replied to my emails. Some were addressed to my domain and others to my gmail address.
I was also concerned that this might give me a slightly higher perceived risk in some SPAM filters.
Like I said earlier, none of this was a huge deal. It was just one of those inconsistencies that led me to routing all my mail to Google Apps.