{"id":2740,"date":"2013-06-07T05:29:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T10:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2013-06-07T05:29:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T10:29:17","slug":"google-apps-free-on-a-new-mobile-device-via-carddav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/06\/07\/google-apps-free-on-a-new-mobile-device-via-carddav","title":{"rendered":"Google Apps (free) on a new mobile device via CardDAV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had many accounts on Google Apps for Domains. I guess its kind of a blow that the free option is gone now, and the cheapest is now USD$50\/year. One thing Google recently killed in their winter<a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/winter-cleaning.html\"> cleaning of 2012<\/a> was Google Sync.<\/p>\n<p>Now when you setup a new device, say an iPhone, you will have to &#8220;fetch&#8221; Mail (push email has stopped working). If you want push email, you will have to use the GMail app.<\/p>\n<p>Calendars seem to sync just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Contacts need you to use CardDAV. Google has useful <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/mail\/answer\/2753077?hl=en\">instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How easy was it to ditch a BlackBerry? Dead easy. Setup email, allow it to sync calendar, allow it to sync contacts and the new phone &#8220;just works&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I did for sometime think of using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/email-hosting\/webmail\/\">Rackspace hosted webmail<\/a>, which is USD$2\/user\/month, with $1\/user\/month for push, but wasn&#8217;t really certain that paying them $3\/month\/user made sense when Google was really only $4.17 (you get all the other stuff with google apps too).<\/p>\n<p>In the future I&#8217;m guessing I will be paying Google for services. But for today, I live to see another (free) day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had many accounts on Google Apps for Domains. I guess its kind of a blow that the free option is gone now, and the cheapest is now USD$50\/year. One thing Google recently killed in their winter cleaning of 2012 was Google Sync. Now when you setup a new device, say an iPhone, you will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1503],"tags":[664,1570,1092],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-calendaring","tag-carddav","tag-email"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Ic","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}