Sigh. Does Apple offer auto-awesome like G+ (and soon, OneDrive)? Do they highlight the best photos or stitch burst shots together into a GIF? Do they email you memories like Everpix used to? Critically for me, do they offer deduplication?
I currently have nearly 1TB of photos thanks to reliance on iPhoto and a decade of attempted back-ups to local storage. In reality, there's maybe 200GB of actual photos. Thankfully, cloud storage has stemmed the proliferation of redundant photos.
For a company supposedly focused on user experience, Apple's complete failure with photos has been baffling. First the catastrophe of iPhoto, then arbitrary photo streams, and now $20/month/1TB (!) for iCloud storage. What the hell. Apple usually justifies their premium and exclusivity by offering better products. Hands up, everyone who thinks Apple offers even remotely comparable web services versus literally anyone else.
This just another greedy lock-in of tech-illiterate customers by offering worse services at higher prices. Which seems pretty emblematic of the Tim Cook era -- when Apple fully pivoted to extracting premium money from their customers rather than offering premium products.
I currently have nearly 1TB of photos thanks to reliance on iPhoto and a decade of attempted back-ups to local storage. In reality, there's maybe 200GB of actual photos. Thankfully, cloud storage has stemmed the proliferation of redundant photos.
For a company supposedly focused on user experience, Apple's complete failure with photos has been baffling. First the catastrophe of iPhoto, then arbitrary photo streams, and now $20/month/1TB (!) for iCloud storage. What the hell. Apple usually justifies their premium and exclusivity by offering better products. Hands up, everyone who thinks Apple offers even remotely comparable web services versus literally anyone else.
This just another greedy lock-in of tech-illiterate customers by offering worse services at higher prices. Which seems pretty emblematic of the Tim Cook era -- when Apple fully pivoted to extracting premium money from their customers rather than offering premium products.