Google couldn’t get more frustrating…
0. Google is continuing down this slippery slope of making me never want to use them again… I have 20 Google Apps accounts, some of them paid for with over 50 users each… I try to sign up for Google+(I got an invite) and none of my Google Apps accounts work with it because Google has disabled profiles for Google Apps users. This is extremely annoying, but is what everyone else is complaining about.
1. So I go to youtube to see what gmail address I was using, and magically Youtube has suggested my profile name be Johnuxtv? I may have signed up for an account called that, but I assure you I haven’t used it in YEARS. In the past(yesterday even..), I would sign in with johnux@johnux.com and it would automatically switch to my @gmail account. Now it says, my email address is permanently linked to Johnuxtv, which apparently is a profile I’ve never used before! Now my actual Youtube account filled with favorites, subscriptions, videos, comments etc… is completely detached from my domain.
COULD YOU GET ANY MORE ANNOYING!!!
Here is how I see it…
Youtube was better before Google acquired it. No sign in restrictions…
Youtube wasn’t the best video hosting service, but it had a catchy name. To this day many other video services are cleaner, easier to manage, and all around better. They just lack the BILLIONS of videos Youtube now has.
2. Google+ may be awesome, but forcing Gmail accounts down everyone’s throats is lame. I was able to sign in to Google+ using my business Google Apps account and it worked right away. Google+ is truly great, but there are some issues…
3. I can’t sign in using the Android app. It ALWAYS says I need to be invited but I’ve been invited hence how I’m able to use Google +. If I figure out why, I’ll share it.
Google, still irking us all.
First of all, sorry everyone for not posting in over a year. I’ve had SOO many issues with terrible webhost after terrible webhost that fixing the corrupted Wordpress files for this blog was my last priority.
Oddly enough, my last post was almost a year ago, complaining about how Google is forcing people to use Gmail.
Well…..
They are still at it, and it’s even worse than before. I was really hoping for their account transitions to give us some hope but instead, it is making even FEWER services compatible with your Google Apps accounts.
I said it in my last post, but for a business a gmail account is highly unprofessional, especially with the restrictions of availability. Nobody wants to use john.uxster5227@gmail.com or even businessname52@gmail.com. I know we can still use MAIL with Google Apps, but if you use any other services you have to do the gmail.com sign in- switch accounts-sign in again-sign out dance.
I love the plans Google has in theory, especially their plans for Google+. But the way they punish their paying customers is horrible. Did I mention Google’s no-support/never responding to posts or emails issue? Because that doesn’t seem to ever be changing. Open Source survived because of paid support and Google won’t even offer paid support to paying customers. It’s just a giant shame.
I would love to have enough money to assemble a company that mimics what Google SHOULD DO and ditches all of the rest. I would make sure everything revolves around a domain based email and not even bother hosting a service like gmail. Hell, I would let people sign into their accounts using gmail/hotmail if they really wanted to, but forcing them one way or the other is just plain bad business.
Get it together already Google, I have 100 people complaining to me about your shortcomings each month!
Google, what’s with the FORCING of Gmail addresses?
At first, using Google services was a headache because they required you to have a gmail account associated with it. VERY Yahoo-esque in my opinion, like requiring a yahoo account for flickr, same strategy. I personally don’t like having an email just for a service when I end up having multiple accounts within each of these services. This eventually became less of a headache once Google started to allow integration of domain based email addresses and Google Apps. Now we can use picasa and google analytics and many other services, even gmail itself, with our domain based emails. But NOW, Google is trying to force people into Gmail addresses again, which is absolutely unecessary and a headache. Now with this new account type Google has rolled out people’s Google Apps accounts that are attached to a domain get all jumbled up. They now change from name@domain.com to name%domain.com@gtempaccount.com and each time you login it prompts you with:
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