<p><pre><code> > their organization name was being used in lieu of
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I think there are two types of Google Apps users: (1) the Large Organization and (2) the Guy Who Wants Gmail At His Domain.<p>(1) is okay if their users don't get the quickest rollout of new services, it's just a nice hosted email/calendar/docs solution. Users of (1) probably have personal GMail accounts they use for personal stuff, anyway.<p>(2) is confused whenever their me@mydomain.com email account doesn't act 100% like a regular GMail account.<p>Google has to cater to (1) because that's the whole point of Google Apps -- but that means that (2) gets slower rollouts of features that (1) might not appreciate. Perhaps if there were a different product, aimed toward the individual rather than the organization, this type of confusion could be avoided.
Good! Much better than blaming their paying Apps customers (in front of their users) for things they didn't implement:<p><a href="http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1350411&p=admin_disabled" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...</a>
This is good news. For geeks with their own domain for email the free apps accounts are great. The downside is that they are usually slow to rollout new services. Looking forward to trying G+
I think many more people have Google+ than realize it. I signed up first day, never got any email, and signing into GMail one day, I happened to look at the upper left corner of the black bar and there was You+. I clicked and had Google+.