All of that giddy school excitement we went over yesterday in regards to Google’s flip-o-the-switch action on push gmail for everyone (backed by active sync) was a bit short lived. Not even 10 minutes after I set up the new push enabled Gmail account on my iPhone did emails come to a screeching halt. I kept getting connection errors like there was no tomorrow. Because of that, I had to re-add my Gmail account via the stock Gmail account settings on the iPhone. I left the push enabled account active so I’d know when it starts working again. Oh yeah. About that. If you didn’t know. It’s broken. It seems Google has a case of AT&T-itis — they grossly underestimated the demand that iPhone users would put on their servers and have since rendered the Gmail/active sync push service dead. Whether you see it as a humorous oversight, or a painful reminder of past failures is completely up to you. I personally am not too tweaked. I still have at least a functioning pull Gmail account so it’s not that bad. Hopefully Google can get this apparent hardware related, supply/demand snafu fixed and quick. I’m itchin’ for some instant gratification.
