Keep in mind that you are assuming that something that costs on the order of 50 cents a month necessarily implies that only big corporations rather than individuals use it. There are lots of people who are freelancers or founders who use email at their own domain as their personal email.
It is free for individuals, or was maybe they changed that? I ised it for free for seversl years but just started paying in the hope of getting better support. Given I didnt I am probably going to go back to free.
Now, I get this idiotic error since I don't use one of the major web browsers (FF, IE, Chrome, Safari).
I really hate the websites (such as read.amazon.com) that ignores the other webkit based web browsers (uzbl, luakit, surf...) with same capabilities with Chrome and Firefox. (I don't even compare them with IE!)
No way to login with the profile that I had created before Google banned Apps users. I'm still looking at my own profile as an anonymous visitor and only thing I can do is to create a new profile!
I'm a big fan of all Google products in general. People who understand the product anticipates it and are excited about it, like Google Wave for example. But sometimes it's less about the product than the way it is presented. Waves for example was presented as the end-all, stand alone collaborative tool. But when nobody understood it enough to use it the general public doesn't care about it. In the case of Google+ it is presented as a Facebook competitor in the social networking market. Everyone and their moms are already on Facebook so why would people want to update another profile and do more work. However, the advantage of Google+ is that it is backed by the Google infrastructure, which includes the established Gmail user base. Gmail already feels like a social networking product; you can easily chat with friends and new acquaintances, share events with other with Google Calendars, and use tons of Google Apps. The point is Google already is a social network. We don't need to be confused with a new product called Google+. It's social networking features should have just been revealed as a subset of Gmail. Many are already familiar with Gmail and new social networking features will draw more people to it.
I'm a big fan of all Google products in general. People who understand the product anticipates it and are excited about it, like Google Wave for example. But sometimes it's less about the product than the way it is presented. Waves for example was presented as the end-all, stand alone collaborative tool. But when nobody understood it enough to use it the general public doesn't care about it. In the case of Google+ it…
Google+ was never presented as a Facebook competitor. They tried social networking with Gmail with Buzz and that failed miserably. I don't really know what the problem is. The uber bar is more than sufficient.
Now if only they could get their multiple account sign-in feature polished. I use one Google account for Youtube, one for Google groups, and then my Apps account for email and plus. Why can't I set my preferred account for each service? The day I went to Google.com and noticed I was signed in was the first sign of trouble. Why do I have to have my account used everywhere I go? I don't want you to log me in for search…
I would argue that you are probably the exception from the norm -- most users have only one account and would probably consider it a major inconvenience to have to log in multiple times across different Google properties.
It is free for individuals, or was maybe they changed that? I ised it for free for seversl years but just started paying in the hope of getting better support. Given I didnt I am probably going to go back to free.
Still free but the link is kind of buried.
They also recently dropped the free version to 10 accounts instead of 50.
Curious to see how much this bumps the active Google+ account numbers. Google claims about 40 million Apps users right now.
I'd guess not much. Most people who wanted to use G+ already signed up with a Gmail account. Unless you're counting one person maintaining personal and professional profiles as 2 active accounts...
I'm a big fan of all Google products in general. People who understand the product anticipates it and are excited about it, like Google Wave for example. But sometimes it's less about the product than the way it is presented. Waves for example was presented as the end-all, stand alone collaborative tool. But when nobody understood it enough to use it the general public doesn't care about it. In the case of Google+ it…
Google+ was never presented as a Facebook competitor. They tried social networking with Gmail with Buzz and that failed miserably. I don't really know what the problem is. The uber bar is more than sufficient.
I never used Buzz. It just confused me when I saw the Buzz icon like when the 'mark as important icon' was new in Gmail. Maybe it would have worked if people can use the chat box to share content and do their status update. And then the feed can all paginate in one or more email maybe right above the first email in the inbox. People are all used to chat and checking their mail, maybe even naturally 'Buzz'. Don't really know too much about uber bar.