Which one do you prefer? I used to love Gmail, but now that iCloud is out and available I really like iCloud, but there's less space available for your email. What do you think? Which is better?
Currently I have my gmail forwarding all my emails to my iCloud account
For email gmail hands down. I tried iCloud email web base and it's to slow. So I use email and contacts through gmail exchange and the rest on iCloud. Also if I were to change OS's I can still use my exchange account.
I have both setup with mail, contacts and calendars. Google mail primary, iCloud contacts and calendar primary. Not sure what's the better option though.
Exchange sync to Gmail for Mail only.
iCloud - Reminders, Data
Exchange sync for Work Exchange email, contacts.
Keep a synced copy of my contacts on iCloud for home use.
I have both setup with mail, contacts and calendars. Google mail primary, iCloud contacts and calendar primary. Not sure what's the better option though.
Same here...will see how it all gets sorted out after a month or so.
Since I got my iPhone I switched to iCloud. It simply works better with the iPhone and my Mac, as I can use the built in Mail.app, rather than needing something like Sparrow to fully take advantage of Gmail's awkward IMAP implementation. Also, Google is a bit scary nowadays (although I'm not paranoid).
I've always used gmail but decided to use an @me account and actually love it. I use iCloud for my contacts, cal, iWork and now email. I get emails almost instantly (did a test) and when I delete the email off one device it removes from all other.
I've always used gmail but decided to use an @me account and actually love it. I use iCloud for my contacts, cal, iWork and now email. I get emails almost instantly (did a test) and when I delete the email off one device it removes from all other.
That's the biggest thing I love about iCloud ... Integration will all devices
when I delete the email off one device it removes from all other.
I have not found this to be entirely true. While deleting an email from a iOS device removes it from OS X Mail.app, the opposite is not true. If you delete a email from within OS X Mail.app, it won't instantly delete from iOS devices - it'll in fact not update the mailbox state until you either open the iOS Mail app, or a fetch or push occurs. So you could have your iPhone reporting two unread, but Mail.app reporting zero unread.
I have not found this to be entirely true. While deleting an email from a iOS device removes it from OS X Mail.app, the opposite is not true. If you delete a email from within OS X Mail.app, it won't instantly delete from iOS devices - it'll in fact not update the mailbox state until you either open the iOS Mail app, or a fetch or push occurs. So you could have your iPhone reporting two unread, but Mail.app reporting zero unread.
Yup. And frankly, this is the ONLY reason I don't use iCloud for e-mail. iCloud doesn't push read/unread status to iOS devices. Apple needs to fix this.
Gmail for mail(really close to moving to iCloud) and iCloud for everything else. The only thing stopping me is I can't get to iCloud at work. We got gmail open but not iCloud
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