Haha, I have been selling my boss on switching us over to google apps for around A YEAR.<p>We've been gradually moving accounts over over the last couple of weeks, and I finally walked into his office today and asked him if I could set up his phone and stuff on the new google apps.<p>"errr....surree, I don't know are you sure this thing works?"<p>"YES! It's freaking google! It's awesome!"<p>So I set up his outlook, and his phone...<p>and as soon as he went to open "exchange" on his iPhone...gmail bites it.<p>DAMNIT!!!<p>"I don't know about this google, thing, blhack..."
Even google apps status dashboard is down (<a href="http://www.google.com/appsstatus" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/appsstatus</a>). Where's status status page?
Status page updated (<a href="http://www.google.com/appsstatus" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/appsstatus</a>):<p>'We believe about 10% of Google users experienced difficulties reaching Google for six minutes this afternoon starting at approximately 2:41pm PT. We apologize to everyone affected and have worked hard to get our services back to normal as quickly as possible.'
Google announced some changes to Gmail¹, so that wasn't as big a surprise. The other services being down... I dunno.<p>[¹]<a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2012/10/introducing-new-compose-in-gmail.html" rel="nofollow">http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2012/10/introducing-new-compose...</a>
Seems like anything that depends on personalization, including Apps for Domains, is down. I'm glad it fails in a way which lets google search keep working even if the login process is messed up, at least.
I wonder if the next thing will be an email from Google saying "if you don't want us to turn off your Google again, send us $(calculated-amount-you-will-probably-pay). That $ value is pretty high, far higher than their current revenue from me (adblocking...).