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Every time an announcement like this is made I get a bunch of angry messages from friends I've convinced to use Google Apps for their personal email who will ha
by therobotking 15y ago
Every time an announcement like this is made I get a bunch of angry messages from friends I've convinced to use Google Apps for their personal email who will have to wait an unspecified amount of time for the new features.
- Lewisham 15y agoWell, it's your fault, so I hardly blame them. Why on earth would you tell people to use Google Apps as a personal email service? It's a mallet to a crack a nut. Google Apps is for businesses, it's probably even a little much for SOHO. If people want their own email address, just buy the domain, forward the email to Gmail and use the Send As feature to send from that address. I really don't have a lot of sympathy for the cat-calls that surrounds Every Single Google Launch when it isn't on Apps straight away. Except if you'd been given weird information from someone who should know better, I suppose. I would say Google probably should shoulder some of the responsibility for not dissuading the individual users it doesn't want to support with GApps from signing up.
- pyre 15y agoOne needs an actual MX to forward to a gmail address, no? You can't just point your MX record at Google's servers. That's an additional cost that doesn't exist for Google Apps for Domains. PS: If Google wanted to gear it towards businesses, they should have named it Google Apps for Businesses. In general though, I'm sure that the free vs. paid accounts is probably a pretty good divider between business and personal use.