My place of employment uses Google Apps, my personal domain I have on Google Apps, I have a Gmail account that predates both, and many clients that I occasionally need to log in to are on Google Apps. Now, Google launches a "multiple login" feature, which I assume was done in part to facilitate Google+ to some extent, but, regardless of the reason, they did it.
Their challenge is that once Google Apps is released they can have a username@hosteddomain.com registered in their system, but, there can also be a username@gmail.com also registered. Additionally, you can have a guy like me who may have a few logins, and have each login using various logins. Most of my Google product usage is under my gmail account login, but a couple random things are under my personal domain...so now the multiple login feature is supposed to facilitate handling that.
So, today, I login in to my domain email, then need to go into AdSense, I need to switch accounts, when I do, I am logged out of my domain email and into Gmail, not what I want. Toss my work email into the mix and I am vastly more annoyed.
One thing I noticed, as working on my Google ChromeBook, is that the Chrome OS seems to handle this much better, as I login to the ChromeBook as my gmail account and it retains that login everywhere, and I can still login to my hosted domain email at the same time, it's worked great, or, better, at least, than non-Chrome OS based surfing.
I am going to GooglePlex in September for a conference, and plan on bending some ears over this poor multiple account handling, there has got to be a better way to support parallel logins.
Rant concluded.
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