Earlier this week, we wrote that the upcoming T-Mobile G1 didn't fully support Google Apps customers who have their own domains. At the time, the statement we received from Google confirming this omission raised a few questions – after all, the Apps version of Gmail runs on the same underlying framework as the consumer one.

Now it seems that information provided by Google wasn't quite correct. In fact, the T-Mobile G1 does support Google's enterprise customers using Google Apps on their own domains. Confused? You won't be – after the cut...

In a fresh statement, Google told us:

Android also supports customers of Google Apps for Your Domain, including Premium customers, with the same features: you can get push Gmail for your custom domain, and your custom-domain Contacts and Calendar will sync. Unfortunately you may pick only a single Gmail or custom-domain login; you cannot switch between two accounts in Android 1.0.

This, of course, changes the conclusions we made, too. Far from the G1 being a phone focused solely on consumers, it could easily be a smartphone Trojan horse which opens doors to corporate clients.

One thing that corporations have traditionally hated is single sources for products. IT managers always want to avoid buying into technologies which are only available from one vendor, unless there's a compelling reason to do so.

Take, for example, the Mac. One of the most often-cited reasons for its failure to make a dent in the enterprise market was that there was only one supplier for the hardware: Apple. This meant a lack of competition for hardware contracts, something which procurement people in big companies always frown upon. And this is a key advantage of Android: there be multiple suppliers for Android-based phones (unlike both Apple and RIM), making the platform potentially more attractive for corporate customers. The next year or two promises to be very interesting.

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Rick Newcombe  - Better to go with a proven performer     |11/11/08 6:28 PM Why gamble with your organisations mobile future? NotifyLink already supports Google Apps, both free and Enterprise versions. Check us out at http://www.noti fycorp.com Reply | Quote

Omkar Joshi  - How to change from gmail to gapps   |20/11/08 7:38 AM hello, i could not setup gapps push to my g1 earlier and read on this forum that it was not supported in the same way as gmail. so i setup the phone with my gmail account but now i want to revert back to my g-apps account. does anyone know how to actually undo the original gmail account and reset the machine on my a-apps own domain? thanks very much Reply | Quote

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