Google has a transition period for that. It's Private/Beta -> Normal users -> Google Apps

It's so they make sure it's a very polished service by the time it gets on Google Apps.

Except that they claimed last year that google profiles would be available in a few months. We still don't have it. There has been no official update on the matter either.

Google Apps has a transition plan to make them all first-class Google Accounts. I enabled it in my domain, and I might have read some emails saying that they were all transitioned automatically in the last month, not sure though.

The changes seem to be up for my Google Apps account. Investigate your site settings panel.

Nope, even those who have made the switch are left out in the cold (even me, and I work there.)

Tell you what: when we expand the field trial to include Apps users, and I get some invites, I'll hand extras out to HN readers with Apps accounts. If you fit this description, write to me on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=%23raldi&subje...

I'm in the same position as bad_user above.

What happens when you visit http://plus.google.com/ ?

on my @jperla.com account, I have a working page. Did you set up a google profile? I don't know why we have different results.

Looks like Google Profiles are a no-no for Google Apps users. A shame really since my enthusiasm for this will probably wear off before they sort this out...

there's nothing stopping you from creating a regular google account.

Just for trying it out once or twice, sure.

But my world depends on my primary email. I get notifications on my phone from it. I have my calendar, my Picassa, my documents on it and I also use Google Talk quite a lot lately.

And because I did the recent migration, I cannot have a parallel regular Google account tied to this email address; it used to work fine this why with some minor pitfalls.

If you don't have a Google Apps account that you really depend on, you can't feel the same pain I do :)