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>arguably their own customers I use an Android phone but I wouldn't label myself as just a Google customer

• saurik 14y ago
  I did say "arguably" (and I can't stress that enough: if you were Microsoft, wouldn't you feel like these are your customers? it doesn't really matter what the customers think); that said, if your purchase was affected by the fact that the device came with the Market and other Google-branded apps that Google only offers to manufacturers as part of a licensing program, then you are at least indirectly their customer. Also, it should be noted that many of the people who need Exchange sync support are also doing so because they have an iPhone (where Google at least used to recommend you use the Exchange protocol to access Gmail instead of Apple's Gmail profile, as it allowed more content to synchronize; maybe Apple fixed this) or want the extended synchronization to work in clients like Outlook. It just feels somewhat weird that Google /chose/ to do this, given the importance they ascribe to getting the most out of tools like Outlook that some Gmail users really want to access all of their content with: it doesn't really screw Microsoft very much as most normal people aren't tied to their e-mail address (like us techy people are)... it mostly helps Microsoft's Outlook.com service.
  • 3825 14y ago
    I know exactly one person who owns a Windows Phone 8 device (the 920). I can see where he is coming from because he is our SharePoint guy.