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Comment by aroch | Hacker News Reader

Is Inbox going to be broken on GApps accounts like Now is?

Disclaimer: Googler

In what way do you think Now is broken with GApps accounts? I use Now with GApps, and don't know what you're referring to.

Yeah, I don't get it, my gapps account works great with now?

Gmail integrations just don't work with some accounts and will never work with the primary account. Email integration will ignore some forwards/catch-all accepted emails but work fine with others. It seems awfully flakey.

I have an entire GApps domain that I can't even turn Now on for, and I have no idea why.

Edit: Ahh the standard HN, "someone said something about Google that isn't glowing" flag instinct. Sorry that my experience with Now has been negative and you don't like that, flag away. Amusingly, the video comment (id=8493719) was flagged down into the negatives rather quickly, partially recovered and is continually being flagged.

Complaining about being flagged on HN usually invites more flags.

"Gmail cards are currently not available when using Google Now with a Google Apps account."

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2839480?hl=en

Not supported is not broken.

I want to know the reasoning behind this question.

Do you think a Google employee is going to come in here and answer "yes! we'll break it hard!"?

Do you think anyone here actually has the answer? Most don't even have access.

It's mostly just a hypothetical, I don't expect anyone to have the answer (Google won't even officially acknowledge that Now integration is broken in GApps).

It is mostly annoying that Google introduces new features that they apparently don't care about making work for their paying customers.

Inbox works on two of my Apps accounts. What are you actually asking?

Did you have to turn this on in the Google Apps control panel? I'm unable to get it to work (Google Apps free edition, grandfathered).

It's currently unavailable for Google Apps accounts. If his apps account has access to it then it's likely that he works for Google.

That turns out to be the case.

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