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. 

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

Blame Apple - you know you want to

I've decided to blame Alan Turing. That ought to cover it. 

Alan is touring? No wonder nothing is working.

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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  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'

 

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. 

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!