Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support

Good to see this type of functionality being exposed for free, but does this mean you can't use Exchange AND Gmail at the same time? (Read: the big red 'Important!' banner on the Google Sync web page...) Could you before (I don't use Gmail directly or Exchange.) And as for looking the fool... ad-supported apps on a premium music player, anyone?

Interesting article. Is there a hole in his analysis? "Apple is perhaps the most influential company in the personal computer and CE market. And this is driving its competitors crazy. -- One of the more startling announcements made at Apple's recent iPod launch event was that Apple has the credit card information on over 100 million users. -- That makes it easy for the company to create devices that take full advantage of the content it offers and manages. This reinforces Apple's unique position, and is frustrating its competitors to no end. -- And put yourself in the place of a content or app developer. You would have to be insane not to back Apple; it can deliver over 100 million prospective digital customers to you. So Apple will continue to attract digital content providers and app developers..." http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353010,00.asp

Wow. I love visiting a website and getting insulted in the first sentence. A bit harsh, Paul. Rick RMansfield@mac.com

"if there's anyone actually paying for MobileMe a year from now, well, you already looked like a fool" Once again, Paul finds it necessary to insult users of Apple's products, then wonders why he gets pushback from them.

"What's your point again?" Clearly you need some reading lessons: "11.1....By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. 11.2 You agree that this licence includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.... 11.3 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media" In lawyer speak, Google can take your information, turn it into an ad, make money off it, sell it to their partners and associates, in which they include ANYBODY purchasing ad space from the Google ad network (including the companies that buy ad space to link to malicious websites, trojans, and other nasty stuff).... Now remember that Google has a service under their umbrella that also makes that extremely scary - Google Checkout, which handles your credit card transactions. And by using Google, you agree to those terms. How do you like dem apples?

"Once again, Paul finds it necessary to insult users of Apple's products, then wonders why he gets pushback from them." I do recall a certain someone calling a user of Windows Server products a "dipsh_t admin". And you wonder why you get pushback?

You are such a tool Thurrott. Instead of just announcing this new feature you announce it and jab at Apple and its users? I am sorry but for a Mac user Mobileme is still better. Google's offerings have one great thing going for them. Price. Step outside of that they are just slightly better than Microsoft offerings for the consumer. They are better than Microsoft because there is way less confusion of apps. Just take Gmail, its fast, but ugly and you can only use that stupid conversation thread view in webmail (as far as I know). Its got adds all over the place, they read all of your email so they can target ads to you. If you want to delete something for ever you have to delete it multiple times because of the All Mail folder or should I say "label". It reeks havoc with mail clients if you want to use IMAP because of that "All Mail" folder. However its free. Mobileme for a Mac/iPhone user is Exchange like email, calendar, contacts. Its syncs your book marks, it provides cloud space for storage that syncs with your Mac and iPhone. A place to publish an iWeb site, photos, and movies. For large files you want to share with friends, its a FTP server via a link in an email that can have a password and time limit. For iPhone users it helps you find your phone, or lock it out if you lost it. It integrates with iLife and iWork applications. Most of these options work with MobileMe on a PC as well. NONE of its ad based. I upgrade my family pack for $69 via Amazon over the summer. Google can do most of this, but not all. The integration is not even close, and the privacy and annoyance is 100X worse on Google products. I will pay the price to have better privacy, no-ads and better integration. If (Huge IF) Microsoft offered the same thing it would sell well I imagine. However its such a mess on the Microsoft side and they continue to keep that way....mesh vs sky drive is a perfect example. The new Office Web apps are going to use Sky Drive, which cant sync with anything. Why? Where am I going to get my mobile apps, on my WinMo phone or Zune HD? Messy and confusing.

>>You are such a tool Thurrott. << I'm sure we could find some common ground here... >>Just take Gmail, its fast, but ugly<< ...but not here.

what if you are already using ActiveSync? You can only have one EAS account configured at a time.

@rr0de74 "I don't know of any phone that allows multiple Exchange accounts." I was reading other sites where this announcement was made, and a lot of people were saying that the iPhone is one of the only phones with exchange support that didn't allow multiple accounts. Apparently the Pre and Win Mo allow mutliple accounts.

@Sandman, on my WinMo 6.1 phone if I go to Active Sync>>>>>Menu>>>>>Configure Server I see my current Exchange Server. I can only wipe that out and put a new one in. I cant add another. I could be wrong, there may be a way, but I dont see it.

"I do recall a certain someone calling a user of Windows Server products a "dipsh_t admin". And you wonder why you get pushback?" That was directed towards a specific individual, and I apologized. Paul never will.

I guess the Palm Pre does. I have never used one so I cant say for sure. http://jkontherun.com/2009/05/25/palm-pre-supports-multiple-exchange-acc...

gfryesc1 said: "the needless shot at mobileme illustrates what Paul is all about, the notorious jerk: snarky, witless, and a transparent shill." He he he!!! Relax man... Their is no need to talk about Paul like this... You can have your opinion but you can be courteous about others...

"You can have your opinion but you can be courteous about others..." I wonder if Paul is reading this.

@ lotsa: "I wonder if Paul is reading this." Judging by a lot of Paul's recent posts here an on the WinInfo site, I seriously doubt it.

You Apple people week after week just astound me with your crazy comments. Don't you people have lives? Don't you people have better websites to hit instead of Paul's? You people come here and whine and now call Paul names. Go somewhere else if you don't like it. Look at the name of the website. Grow up.

Delmont, seriously if you don't like our comments go somewhere else. Grow up will you?

rr0de If you want some respect for your comments, pehaps adding some value to the discussion with actual facts might be a good way to start.

rr0de, Did you honestly reply in that manner to me? You do realize you just proved my point. Which is your style of: like my product or your a moron. Ok...hmmm....how about I spend all day on Pro-Apple blogs, sit there and blast away at Apple products and thrash the blogger. Or, I can be productive and read sites of actual interest and leave comments of value on those sites. Or I could like some children here and continue to waste time and provide no value. Now tell the truth, how old are you and what is your job title?

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-is-supposedly-pi... Microsoft has contacted a number of Apple's retail store managers to work in their stores. In addition to 'significant raises,' the managers have also been offered moving expenses in some cases." It doesn't end there: once the ex-Apple managers have jumped ship, they are asked to contact their top sales employees at their old workplaces and offer them similar positions at Microsoft's retail stores, also with higher pay. Oh, the old "we-at-Micro$oft-cannot-do-it-ourselves-so-lets-see-where-money-can-get-us".... Really...what CAN Microsoft do? Except hiring a bunch of nitwits barely intelligent enough to get an MSCE-certificate and running a overtly stupid blog like this?

Can Microsoft get any dumber? Yes, yes they sure can. Look at how pathetic this is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oWWt_L-qeo This is even worse than the horrible video Paul posted the other day.

Anyone ever notice how Microsoft created everything? Truly interesting to say the least.... yeah right.

I don't use the mobile pieces, but I have been using the WIndows Live Mail client for some time now, which syncs the two computers I have and makes it consistent with what is on the webmail portion of Hotmail. Just like cached Exchange does. Contacts and calendar too.

@ Delmont: Perhaps you should re-word your letter and address it to Paul: "You week after week just astound me with your crazy comments. "Don't you have a life? "Don't you have better targets to hit instead of Apple? You come here and whine and now call Apple users names. Write about something else. Look at the name of the website. "Grow up."