
Apple Might Finally Solve Photo Storage Hell - CoolSuor
http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/22/apple-might-finally-solve-photo-storage-hell/
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therobotking
Hasn't Google+ done this for quite some time now? I think at 2048 x 2048 you
can store unlimited photos. Odd that it wasn't one of the comparisons in the
article anyway.

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utunga
Lots of people saying Google or Microsoft has 'done this'.. Well yes and no in
my personal opinion. The devil is definitely in the details and if you are
like me you find the existing services frustrating in their own way. (I'm none
too optimistic about Apples solution either given I'm only partly 'iDevice'
compatible).

I don't want to _sync_ my collection (have a backup in the cloud) I want to
have the actual backup elsewhere and keep only a small cache of photos
locally. My laptop SSD and phone are filled up with photos. At the same time I
want to be 100% confident that I have the photos somewhere, forever.

Google+ has its own special madness of it seemingly choosing which of my
photos it deems worthy and not actually just syncing _all_ of them.. only the
ones it likes get 'highlighted' but even clicking into 'more' it seems (I
swear I'm not crazy) it only actually syncs are subset of the rest. God knows
why. Does not give me confidence in the solution.

Also I want to merge the photostream from multiple photo devices according to
time. And I do _not_ want to have to 'share' a post with an album on Google+
just to make some photos public. Grr.

In short none of the existing solutions actually offers that kind of
experience, though the thing outlined in the OP is pretty much what I want.

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Oletros
> Google+ has its own special madness of it seemingly choosing which of my
> photos it deems worthy and not actually just syncing all of them.. only the
> ones it likes get 'highlighted' but even clicking into 'more' it seems (I
> swear I'm not crazy) it only actually syncs are subset of the rest. God
> knows why. Does not give me confidence in the solution.

I don't understand this, are you saying that not all the pictures are synced
to the cloud or that you can't see all the pictures synced?

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mullingitover
What photo storage hell? flickr offers 1TB of online storage. Free. The only
downside is they are limited to .jpg uploads, but I doubt Apple would do RAW
anyway. Seriously, $50 a year for 200GB is pretty sad. Almost as sad as being
restricted to 5GB of iCloud backup space no matter how many iDevices you buy.

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toddynho
Is there some place to get it cheaper? Just for rule of thumb checking AWS
(with their new pricing) it would cost ~$72/year for the 200GB storage alone,
without factoring in any cost for transferring data, requests, etc.

I'm curious if there is a way to get storage cheaper than their existing $50
for 200GB/year. And yes, I know Flickr is free, but I mean from some place
where the pricing isn't in exchange for some "to be determined later"
monetization angle.

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mullingitover
Dreamhost offers unlimited storage, and if you buy two years up front it's
$3.95 a month (I think this might be a promo, I'm paying closer to 9 a month
but it's worth it). I've been with them for about ten years and they're swell.

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Mandatum
There is literally no inclination to how or what Apple have done to solve this
problem. This is paid advertising.

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Touche
... As long as you only use Apple products.

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Spooky23
Not necessarily a problem. I was in a hotel recently that doesn't secure their
network. Easily 80% of the devices in there were Apple devices. The next most
common device was Samsung.

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vayan
Your hotel isn't the world.

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Spooky23
Never said it was. But hotels are good snapshots of particular demographics
whom the hotel chains target.

The people spending $250/night at the particular urban center hotel made the
choice that I observed on that one occasion. If that's a trend vs. a
datapoint, it could be very meaningful for somebody trying to sell products.

Personally, the next time I find myself in a cheap roadside place, I'm going
to make a similar comparison.

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innonate
This latest round of updates for Apple certainly is interesting, but when's
the last time they got photos right? For me it was the first iPhoto version,
and since then every "exciting" development has been a bust. Main reason we're
super positive at Picturelife.

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kyriakos
its amazing how techcrunch is still respected when they keep posting badly
researched articles like this one.

if its a paid article believe they should clearly state it.

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cowbell
It's techcrunch. They live in an Apple bubble.

