T-Mobile G1 Android smartphone lacks push for Google Apps?

It's an open platform. Just give it a little time. The goal is to stay under the radar before doing the smack down on the bigger players.

Yup - early adopters are going to find there's quite a bit missing from Android but, given its open source nature, those gaps should gradually get filled in. I'll be waiting to see how it fleshes out before switching.

Android phone has come out. Some how, I didn't see much fan fare.When it comes to enterprise platform, no one comes close to Blackberry. Be it, server side monitoring, provisioning, control, access, ?When you need user experience, iPhone leaves everyone behind by miles.The problem I am seeing with Android is: it is aiming for building a developer community. Even if Android succeeds in building the dev community, will that convert into mobile sales? Mostly not. There?s the glitch. Dev communities could make Linux succeed because there was consumption of what they were developing. They were addressing a need for low cost, feature rich, robust server.In mobiles, the experience is ?personal?. If there isn?t a corporate ruling, an individual will choose a phone based on his need, the feature set in the phone, its price, look and feel, ? Will the mobile buyer be affected by applications (for which Android is claiming to be a platform)? After a basic set of features like, camera, music, video, phone, contacts, GPS, Web, what more will he need? For every unmet need, the web browser will be able to fill the gap. Just at the device end alone, I don?t see any dire need for an application development platform and hence think that Android will find a difficult time finding adoption. Only if, Android creates a server side (enterprise class) ecosystem similar to Blackberry, will it be able to create space for it self. Otherwise, for mere phone features, people will always find options better than android. May be I am missing some thing, because generally Google takes fool proof steps. Would love to learn your thoughts.

The following is from the Google Apps Discussion Group--------------------------http://groups.google.com/group/enterprise-mobile/browse_thread/thread/a892432362362210?pli=1but basically...from: The Google Team to: chazdate: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:10 PMsubject: Re: Use of Google Apps service with T-Mobile G1?Hello Chaz,Thanks for your reply. Yes, they will work. Google Apps accounts andGmailwill be supported equally.Enjoy the new phone.Sincerely,AlexThe Google Apps Team

As a long time subscriber to the Google Apps Premier service (Premier gives you access to email tech support) I had also sent off an inquiry about this as I want to get a G1. I received the same info mentioned above, that Google Apps logins would have duplicate functionality.Have always thought this site to be reliable, surprised the story hasn't been edited to reflect factual information...?

I just got my G1 and tried to set it up with my hosted domain on Google Apps. It won't accept that login and gives a message saying that a required application "cl." is missing.

I called Google Apps tech support and was told that I cannot use my Google Apps login, I must use a regular Gmail account. Not estimate from this person on when that feature would be available

Can you drop a line, Mike? editor (at) mobilecomputermag.co.uk.

I and others had the "cl" problem as well. The most plausible explanation I've found is that "cl" means "calendar" but even if it's enabled for your domain, there was a server-side bug (fixed on 2008-10-22, same day you posted) that gave this error. If you try again it should work...unless there's also a caching bug, which I think there might be, in which case turn the phone on once without a SIM card, then with SIM card again and sign in.