sharke
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Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
It just goes to show how stupid it is to trust this technology. I had no emails come to my iPhone all morning, then I get home and open Gmail on my browser and there's 20 mails, many of them urgent and from hours ago, glaring at me. Turns out the Exchange Gmail sync which I so blindly rely on to get email on my iPhone wasn't working. It's taken me the best part of an hour to get the thing going again.
Who to blame? I have Apple, Google and AT&T to choose from. Screw it, I'm just going to hate them all.
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/23 06:24:11
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I always blame Google. That works for me. Yesterday morning I was out of milk for my cereal. I sent an e-mail to Google support and they'll get back to me within three days. Man I'm hungry 
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/23 06:48:17
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Blame Apple - you know you want to
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sharke
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/23 10:45:04
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I've decided to blame Alan Turing. That ought to cover it.
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/23 12:23:40
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Alan is touring? No wonder nothing is working.
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/23 12:46:14
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When will people realize that the convenience of sending an urgent email and then forgetting about it, is not worth the cost of uncertainty about when if ever it will be read. This always-on email tag is like children playing a game of kooties. If something is urgent, make the phone call. If you get the person who needs the information you can work out how he will respond now. If it goes to voice mail, you know he did not get the message yet, and the burden is still on you to be sure he does. Ford Motors ran for decades without computers. Surely the average individual can function without email for half a day.
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2012/10/23 13:23:58
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/23 14:08:44
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Maybe something small to do with the fact that Google is all android. I think the word Apple makes those guys cringe.They had to make their stuff talk to your stuff.
It would be nice if email addresses could be easily moved the same way we move cell numbers across providers. A piece of cherry pie would be nice right now too but I guess it ain't happenin'
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sharke
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/23 21:02:41
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slartabartfast
When will people realize that the convenience of sending an urgent email and then forgetting about it, is not worth the cost of uncertainty about when if ever it will be read. This always-on email tag is like children playing a game of kooties. If something is urgent, make the phone call. If you get the person who needs the information you can work out how he will respond now. If it goes to voice mail, you know he did not get the message yet, and the burden is still on you to be sure he does. Ford Motors ran for decades without computers. Surely the average individual can function without email for half a day.
For me, the convenience of email and its associated digital storage far outweighs the risk of it (very) occasionally not going through. I run a pretty hectic appointment-based service business and I take all bookings and appointment cancellations/changes via email. If I took them all by telephone, I'd have to hire a secretary since I'm not always available to take calls and I'm often outside and unable to stop and take notes. Email has basically saved me the cost of hiring someone to sit in the office and man the telephone. With email I can have everything waiting for me in my inbox to deal with and categorize into folders as and when I get a few minutes with my iPhone. Sure I could have people leave voice mails, but I think that's actually less reliable than email. And texts, forget about it. They are very unreliable compared to emails in my experience. I guess if you only use email for personal correspondence, then sure - you could definitely function without it if you wanted.
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sharke
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/23 21:07:12
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Starise
Maybe something small to do with the fact that Google is all android. I think the word Apple makes those guys cringe.They had to make their stuff talk to your stuff.
It would be nice if email addresses could be easily moved the same way we move cell numbers across providers. A piece of cherry pie would be nice right now too but I guess it ain't happenin'
I'm not sure if you can do this with other email providers, but I have my business email (in the form of me@mysite.com) set up so that I access it via the Gmail interface. You can do this via Google Apps for Business. Maybe you can do the same with Yahoo and Hotmail interfaces, I don't know. The funny thing about Gmail, Google and Apple is that I have my iPhone set up to receive my Gmail via Exchange and it comes through far quicker than my friend who has his Gmail come to his Android phone. In fact it works very well for 99% of the time. Funny, considering how easy it would be for Google to sabotage the whole process!
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/23 22:54:07
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Could it be that NagBapTM notifications have priority and are usurping the available bandwidth thus delaying all other non-essential communications?
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Starise
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/24 11:10:54
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sharke
Starise
Maybe something small to do with the fact that Google is all android. I think the word Apple makes those guys cringe.They had to make their stuff talk to your stuff.
It would be nice if email addresses could be easily moved the same way we move cell numbers across providers. A piece of cherry pie would be nice right now too but I guess it ain't happenin'
I'm not sure if you can do this with other email providers, but I have my business email (in the form of me@mysite.com) set up so that I access it via the Gmail interface. You can do this via Google Apps for Business. Maybe you can do the same with Yahoo and Hotmail interfaces, I don't know.
The funny thing about Gmail, Google and Apple is that I have my iPhone set up to receive my Gmail via Exchange and it comes through far quicker than my friend who has his Gmail come to his Android phone. In fact it works very well for 99% of the time. Funny, considering how easy it would be for Google to sabotage the whole process!
I agree. You are one lucky guy not to have an android phone. They aren't necessarily bad but in order to avoid infringement and legal action from Apple they had to make the mousetrap a little different. This sometimes equates to things not working as well. I was surprised at how many devices are using the Google android OS. My blue ray wifi player even has it. Was it samsung that was recently sued by Apple over patent infringement over the touch screen interface Apple uses? It was one of the giant cell manufacturers.
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/24 11:49:11
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Sometimes I don't check my email for over a week. I have a phone in case anyone really needs to get in touch with me. Anyone online can use a PM or FB... but sometimes I don't go on FB for over a week... I guess most things can wait. I sometimes wish I didn't have a cellphone. I have come REALLY close to throwing it out of my truck window several times. No one knows what it's like; To feel these feelings, Like I do; And I blame you!
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/24 11:50:37
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Apple sued Samsung on the basis that the shape of their tablet (rectanglier with round corners) was the same as a iPad (rectanglier with round corners).
Samsung claimed that things had been made that way for hundreds of years, the court agreed.
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/24 11:53:38
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Apple sued Samsung on the basis that the shape of their tablet (rectanglier with round corners) was the same as a iPad (rectanglier with round corners). They are lucky that Monster Cable and Gibson didn't sue them too. It deos not have to make any sense when lawyers are involved J
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Re:Thank you iPhone/Gmail heap of junk
2012/10/24 12:57:48
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Thanks for that info Karyn. I guess hearing screen caused me to jump to conclusions. I know Apple is really protective of their patents. When the first iphones had hit the market there were copies in china within months.Not as good mind you but copied.
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