Anyone here use gmail as their only real email yet use iCloud?

[b24pgg]

the Exchange sync is limited when used with Siri

I haven't heard about this. What does it do?

 

[Small White Car]

For now. Wait until Apple pulls everyone into the iCloud "ecosystem," then starts sending iAds to your devices.

I don't buy it.

They make far, far more from selling hardware than they do running iTunes or iAds or the App Store or any of those services.

They know that the way to get ahead of the other hardware makers is to provide a better experience. Thus, any effort to put ads in would be counterproductive. They'd lose more money in sales than they'd make in ads. What kind of a plan is that?

Let me put it to you this way: SHOW ME where Apple has decided to use iAds in their own products. Not a 3rd party app, but in an Apple-made app or in iOS itself. If you're right that would clearly be the first step...the first thing they'd try. Why put ads in e-mail without trying it out in 'Remote' or 'Cards' first? That's obviously the first place it would happen.

Find that and then I'll believe you that e-mail scanning is coming.

Until then, you're saying wild things with no evidence to back them up.

 

[fat jez]

I haven't heard about this. What does it do?

you only have 3 relationships that you can nominate in your own contact, manager and I forget the other two. So when you're setting up relationships in Siri, e.g. Mother, Father, Brother, etc, it shoves them under one of those instead of using a custom entry.

 

[xraydoc]

I use Gmail for email but iCloud for all other data (calendar, contacts, notes, reminders, etc.).

Main reason - where I work the wifi firewall blocks all POP and IMAP email but allows MS Exchange. And since Gmail can be configured on the iPhone as Exchange, this works out perfectly. iCloud (and .Mac and MobileMe before that) don't use those protocols to sync the rest of the data, so those go thru the hospital's wifi without trouble.

I've got 3 email accounts set up as Exchange - two Gmail and one enterprise Exchange account.

So, this way, I can get my email while on wifi at work while maintaining nice and easy contacts, calendar, etc., syncing with my iPhone, iPad and Macs.

 

[The Game 161]

I set up a icloud e-mail account as i had to otherwise yahoo push e-mail wouldn't work.

 

[pittpanthersfan]

Just to be clear, there's no need to access iCloud @me.com email on only Apple products. There's always the webmail version at iCloud.com and Apple has posted instructions on how to Set up iCloud Mail on your devices and computers.

 

[ZBoater]

Gmail has what is in my opinion the best spam filters in the business. Gmail remains my email provider. iCloud I'm still playing with as I am a former MobileMe victim....