Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts

Re:Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts by Firehed on Friday December 14, 2012 @08:16PM (#4924201)

Sure, but who uses iCloud as their primary email provider? I certainly don't trust Apple to get it right, given their experiences with internet services. They've already changed people's email addresses as least twice, which is beyond uncool (mac.com -> me.com -> icloud.com). Unlike your username to their services, your email address is tied into all sorts of other third-party services (not to mention address books) and is incredibly painful to update.

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Re:Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts by Osmium on Friday December 14, 2012 @08:21PM (#4924214)

My @me.com address still works fine, I just now also have an @icloud.com pointing to it too. I believe that's the case for @mac.com as well. Don't worry, there'd be uproar if Apple took people's email addresses from them :)

Personally, I'm a bit of a hypocrite, because I use my gmail as my main account, despite being far more comfortable with a service I can pay for (in the past, that was MobileMe) and know I can get customer service on the phone. Honestly, once Apple can show they've got their act together for more than a few years I'll probably switch...

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Re:Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts by rdl on Saturday December 15, 2012 @05:11AM (#4925062)

Why don't you just pay someone reasonable to host an ActiveSync compatible mail server or mailbox for you?

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Re:Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts by mendocino on Friday December 14, 2012 @08:20PM (#4924209)

Apple didn't discontinue mac.com and me.com domains for existing accounts.

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Re:Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts by sbuk on Saturday December 15, 2012 @05:53AM (#4925106)

>Sure, but who uses iCloud as their primary email provider?

I do.

>They've already changed people's email addresses as least twice, which is beyond uncool (mac.com -> me.com -> icloud.com)

And they all still work.

>Unlike your username to their services, your email address is tied into all sorts of other third-party services (not to mention address books) and is incredibly painful to update.

Since the aliases still work, as mentioned above, this is not an issue at all. Personally I prefer to use the me.com domain as it's short. It still works and the services that I use with me still work, I continue to get email from them. The same is true with .mac addresses.

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Re:Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts by jamroom on Friday December 14, 2012 @08:20PM (#4924206)

I agree - just pointing out however that Exchange is not the _only_ way to get push email on your iphone. For example, if you are using Gmail, you can setup a filter to forward email to your iCloud email address. That way you can continue to use Gmail like you normally would, but get "Push" email on your iphone.

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