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My recollection is that Google used to have two completely different account types. There was the external @gmail.com account type, and then there was the inter
by js2 8y ago
My recollection is that Google used to have two completely different account types. There was the external @gmail.com account type, and then there was the internal @domain.com account type. The latter used an accounting system that was originally designed for internal (employee) accounts, but then became the basis of what was called "Google Apps" which I guess is now GSuite. Apparently there were (and still are?) all sorts of bizarre issues due to the fact that they originally had these two distinct account types.
Anyway, I have both an @gmail.com address and my own domain, the latter of which I had with Google Apps for a while back when it was free. I remember having no end of trouble accessing various Google services when I had both account types. I eventually moved my domain away from Google (I moved email to FastMail). But one thing that broke when I moved my domain away was that my wife lost her blogger account... there was no way (at the time) to transfer everything she'd blogged to an @gmail.com account.
What a terribly confusing mess. My complaint about these sorts of things is the same complaint I have whenever an Apple product breaks on me in a really stupid way: you'd hope the richest tech companies in the world could do better.