[solvitor]

Gmail accounts only; no Google Apps (yet?). Yet another roll-out (ahem, Inbox) where the paying customers get left behind. I realize businesses may want stability with new versions for training, etc. but it would be great at least to have the option by domain/account to be on the new products earlier.

[CSDude]

As I said before, paid users get stabler products whereas us the free loaders are beta testers.

[cujo]

That's fine on paper, but the reality is that none of their "beta" products come with any real user risk.

I think it's more of a "test drive" scenario for google. It's fully baked but they want to see how it changes behavior on a wider scale where people make choices independent of the organization.

[eitally]

That's not true. Google has hosed large enterprise customers many times by rolling out new features or changes to existing products with zero warning, and they have adopted a phased deployment process and a formal trusted tester program to help mitigate it. Contacts is a waaaaaaay bigger deal for businesses than individuals, and there are tons of edge cases Google has to deal with re: Apps customers.

[cujo]

I honestly don't know of any google apps that have hosed enterprise customers. Can you point me at some articles or something?

[dserodio]

There are risks: I merged some contacts on the new web UI and now my Android phone has 8(!) different versions of one particular contact of mine.

[fredley]

Inbox is available for Apps now, but you need a special invite to enable it for the account. No idea how long these take to materialise.