It looks like Google is extending EAS support for Gmail / GCalendar until July. For those of you staring blankly at the screen - Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is what has powered my iOS contacts, calendar, and mail until last month when Google decided to kill support.
EAS was simple, fast, and strong. Integrating iOS with the "new and improved" Google way is complicated to setup, slow to sync, and breaks in spotty data coverage situations.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows Phone does not currently support CardDAV and CalDAV - the new way Google syncs contacts and calendar data. Microsoft complained and Google has agreed long enough to allow Microsoft to get their act together.
My take is this. Keep EAS. DAV may be the open-source, free as in beer way of the future but it's currently broken. I can either wait for my iPad to sync calendar data through CalDAV, a process that can take several minutes, or just use a 3rd party calendar app that does not support push. Neither is great. EAS pushed email, events, and people to my device effortlessly.
Hopefully, Google will see the error of their ways and bring EAS back permanently.
More info can be found here and here.
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