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No, it does not. Signing up for google apps and choosing to use the google apps account as your primary google user account causes you to get new features on a delayed schedule.

You can get a domain through google without switching your google identity to it. You can also sign up for google apps on a non-google domain. google domains and google apps are not the same thing.

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On Google Apps there are features that have been deployed years ago for regular accounts and that are still not available for Google Apps customers.

The one feature missing and that was painful for me were Contacts photos with a resolution higher than 96x96 pixels. On a latest generation Android with good resolution it sucks and I would have preferred if Contacts photos weren't synchronized at all. I ended up switching to a CardDAV provider and in the end I gave up on Google Apps for other reasons as well. And for the record, Google accounts had this resolution increased in 2012 ;-)

Hold on. Are you saying that that's why Android's Contacts keeps resizing all the photos to like 4x4px? Wow, I've tried everything I could find on Google but it never crossed my mind that it would be related to Google Apps. Thanks so much!

TIL, though many people with a domain are going to want their accounts through it.

That said "delayed schedule" above means 1+ years.

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