Comments on: Google’s Email Problem: Corporate Email Without IMAP = Game Over. http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/03/04/googles-email-problem-corporate-email-without-imap-game-over/ Simon Brocklehurst's Technology Blog Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:35:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Asam Bashir http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/03/04/googles-email-problem-corporate-email-without-imap-game-over/#comment-22862 Asam Bashir Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:33:54 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/03/04/googles-email-problem-corporate-email-without-imap-game-over/#comment-22862 I think they might experiment on tying together .Mac services with Google apps, that would be interesting. I use .Mac for lots of things like syncing/publishing calanders, backup, reading my bookmarks and addressbook.app from any browser - and it would be logical to sync all this with documents from Google Apps. This would be a very powerfull combination for enterprise customers who have been comfirmed to be a target for Leopards additions. Also, very powerfull collaboration and desktop sharing tools in iChat will make things even more interesting, you can already add icq, jabber, not sure about Google chat, not tried it. Google has already proved it can make very Mac friendly apps, we're very happy with them so far, we like the Mac'ness of Google Earth, and Apple adds Google search as default on Safari, toolbars of the type for Windows are no go for Google and they've respected this difference. The oldest rumors of Google involvement in consumer orientated aspects of Leopard come from things found in Leopard developer prieviews, like GPS data in file info for iLife applications. But this would only make sence for a handheld touchscreen pad with built-in GPS, or just the iPhone http://www.macrumors.com/2006/10/04/iphoto-6-0-5-google-maps-integration-and-apple-gps-enabled-device/ I think they might experiment on tying together .Mac services with Google apps, that would be interesting. I use .Mac for lots of things like syncing/publishing calanders, backup, reading my bookmarks and addressbook.app from any browser - and it would be logical to sync all this with documents from Google Apps. This would be a very powerfull combination for enterprise customers who have been comfirmed to be a target for Leopards additions. Also, very powerfull collaboration and desktop sharing tools in iChat will make things even more interesting, you can already add icq, jabber, not sure about Google chat, not tried it.

Google has already proved it can make very Mac friendly apps, we’re very happy with them so far, we like the Mac’ness of Google Earth, and Apple adds Google search as default on Safari, toolbars of the type for Windows are no go for Google and they’ve respected this difference.

The oldest rumors of Google involvement in consumer orientated aspects of Leopard come from things found in Leopard developer prieviews, like GPS data in file info for iLife applications. But this would only make sence for a handheld touchscreen pad with built-in GPS, or just the iPhone

http://www.macrumors.com/2006/10/04/iphoto-6-0-5-google-maps-integration-and-apple-gps-enabled-device/

]]> By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/03/04/googles-email-problem-corporate-email-without-imap-game-over/#comment-22829 simon Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:48:26 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/03/04/googles-email-problem-corporate-email-without-imap-game-over/#comment-22829 I wonder why Eric said this - it seems a surprising statement for a CEO to make in that environment. Either this stuff is, to borrow a term from Apple's COO, "worthless", in which case it's better not to have said anything because it could create unrealistic expectations among shareholders. Or this stuff is important, in which case - is this the place to make a disclosure like that? Disclosures of material stuff are supposed to be made in ways such that all shareholders get the information at the same time. Anyway, for the sake of Apple users, I hope this doesn't mean Leopard will have the dubious "benefit" of having various pieces of Google desktop software bundled with new Macs e.g. "Google Desktop for Mac OS X", or "Google Toolbar for Safari". Ughhhhh... Be interesting to see if they're doing anything genuinely innovative together, or, whether, in fact, this stuff is little more than a bundling deal. Time will tell... I wonder why Eric said this - it seems a surprising statement for a CEO to make in that environment. Either this stuff is, to borrow a term from Apple’s COO, “worthless”, in which case it’s better not to have said anything because it could create unrealistic expectations among shareholders. Or this stuff is important, in which case - is this the place to make a disclosure like that? Disclosures of material stuff are supposed to be made in ways such that all shareholders get the information at the same time.

Anyway, for the sake of Apple users, I hope this doesn’t mean Leopard will have the dubious “benefit” of having various pieces of Google desktop software bundled with new Macs e.g. “Google Desktop for Mac OS X”, or “Google Toolbar for Safari”. Ughhhhh…

Be interesting to see if they’re doing anything genuinely innovative together, or, whether, in fact, this stuff is little more than a bundling deal.

Time will tell…

]]> By: Asam Bashir http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/03/04/googles-email-problem-corporate-email-without-imap-game-over/#comment-22823 Asam Bashir Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:59:03 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/03/04/googles-email-problem-corporate-email-without-imap-game-over/#comment-22823 "Without commenting specifically on the rumor, Schmidt reportedly said Google and Apple are "doing more and more things together." "We have similar goals, similar competitors," he added. " http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2547 so, more confirmation of very close colaboration between Apple and Google.. http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BCB371615%2D9828%2D4D12%2D8040%2DB64CDBB47560%7D&siteid=mktw&dateid=39146%2E67511125%2D891090817&dist=nbs “Without commenting specifically on the rumor, Schmidt reportedly said Google and Apple are “doing more and more things together.”

“We have similar goals, similar competitors,” he added. ”

http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2547

so, more confirmation of very close colaboration between Apple and Google..

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BCB371615%2D9828%2D4D12%2D8040%2DB64CDBB47560%7D&siteid=mktw&dateid=39146%2E67511125%2D891090817&dist=nbs

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