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I wish I knew, but this seems to be getting out of hand today. What happened to Google supporting open standards?

Google only supports open standards when it is convenient for them to do so. Now its no longer convenient for them to support CalDav out goes the open standard.

I'm sure IMAP support in Gmail will be next on the chopping block.

My initial reaction to this comment was: "But Google would NEVER drop IMAP support in gmail! That would be beyond ridiculous!"

I probably would've said the same thing about CalDAV last week.

POP3 is used for migration from Gmail by major competitors, I am sure that Google will drop it before IMAP.

That would bum me out because I don't like their IMAP for grabbing emails. I've had a number of messages have weird issues where the rest of another email is appended to it at the end.

Google is extending EAS for another 6 months and msft announced they will support CalDAV and CardDAV, though this may now change: http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archiv...

Google is still supporting ActiveSync: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/gmail-...