Increasing the UX of a product never seems to be a mistake. And of course switching to another device is also part of the User Experience.
Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, just a small fraction of countries, like the United States and the European Union. I'm sure nobody cares about those places.
Yes, only a billion people in the wealthiest countries in the world who are most likely to own an Apple device.
You don't think that more people use Apple iCloud in Japan or India (total population 1.5 billion) than in Liechtenstein (total population approximately 0)?
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#63While it's good that this is finally being provided, it's still somewhat amazing that there isn't any documented API to interact with iCloud.
One can of course, on Apple hardware, use apple proprietary APIs to do some things. Or one can use the iCloudJs stuff from a webpage.
But there's not an official/documented way to, say, write a program that runs on a Linux server to mirror photos in iCloud to disk (or access any other iCloud data).
There are reverse engineered APIs that folks can use to interact with it, but the official iCloud story has been data lock in.
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#64Then we are only missing google providing the same service! (I know of google takeout, which is great but not the same as this)
Yup. For those of us with slow WiFi, Google Takeout is basically unusable.
FWIW, you can do a takeout to another service like OneDrive or another Google Drive account and use their clients to sync. You can probably use wget to download in a more stable way, too.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I hope that Apple will eventually allow bulk downloads of iCloud photos to the desktop. Right now you can only do 1,000 at a time When downloading directly from iCloud.com that's true (and annoying), but you can also bulk download all of the originals via Photos.app (making sure to check "Download Originals to this Mac" rather than "Optimize Mac Storage").
When downloading directly from iCloud.com that's true (and annoying), but you can also bulk download all of the originals via Photos.app (making sure to check "Download Originals to this Mac" rather than "Optimize Mac Storage"). Unfortunately, that wouldn't work for my wife's situation. Her computer is one of those MacBooks with a 256GB drive, and only one USB-C port. So the amount of data stored in her iCloud photos…
This is not directly aimed at you but rather the hilarity of the situation.
> only one USB-C port [...] if I hooked up an external drive, the computer would run out of power before the transfer completed.
Absolutely crazy how we ended up accepting supposedly professional devices that work like this. Choose between having power or being able to use a external hard drive (unless you purchase accessories of course). Mean while, desktop computers are built to be customizable in every single way.
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#66It’s good that apple offers this but when you try to move your photos away from google photos
It’s hard like hell
Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
#67It’s good that apple offers this but when you try to move your photos away from google photos It’s hard like hell
Isn't Google Takeout pretty easy?
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#68If any Google Photos product people are here...
Since you're ending free unlimited photo storage, I badly want a feature that automatically finds all groupings of similar photos and deletes all but the best one (least blurry, most smiles, whatever you decide). Whenever I take photos, I tend to spam the shutter button, so I end up with 3+ photos of anything and everything. I could stay on Google Photos for many, many more years if I had this auto clean up capability.
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#69This article is a little weird. The title is actually "Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos collection to another service " but then the small print says "...to Google Photos." It seems like they plan to support migrating to other services at some point but not yet? It also only allows customers from a small fraction of countries to use this, which I really don't get. Maybe those are all the places iCloud Photos and…
Yeah, just a small fraction of countries, like the United States and the European Union. I'm sure nobody cares about those places.
That is, in fact, a small fraction of the world population.
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#70Lol two months ago I moved about 80GB of photos from iCloud to Google and it was an absolute nightmare. Nothing worked correctly through the entire collection.