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Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by cptskippy » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:43 PM UTC

mikepurvis wrote: post #103

lxgr wrote: post #92

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I'd second that, or alternatively just a plan that lets me upload unlimited photos for a monthly fee like Flickr used to do very early on.

Honestly, though, it's still a bad experience browsing other search-based tags and having to wade through all these dupes. I'd rather a clean way of just removing them at the source. Possibly a compromise could be an auto-collapse function where Photos shows it as a stack with the AI-proposed best pick on top, and an option to fan out and make your own judgment. That doesn't on its own fix the storage side, but it wo…

> Possibly a compromise could be an auto-collapse function where Photos shows it as a stack with the AI-proposed best pick on top

I could see this being done locally on a device and having a dis-or-dat style interface to quickly choose between competing photos.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by BugsJustFindMe » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:44 PM UTC

Denvercoder9 wrote: post #104

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #56

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Can you think of any reasons why it would be limited to just those countries? Note that I'm _not_ asking why those countries are nifty. I'm asking what you think Apple gains by limiting it to just those countries in the first place or would lose by not limiting it to just those countries. The feature technology would be the same regardless of where you are, so saying "only available to users in X" seems like an arbit…

Easy migration to a competitor could hurt their customer retention. Why offer it at all then? At least in Europe the GDPR requires direct transfer of your data to a competitor where technically possible.

The GDPR (or some similar requirement) only appears to apply to a subset of the chosen countries.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by sdljfjafsd » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:47 PM UTC

dangwu wrote: post #42

mnutt wrote: post #10

I was surprised that Google's iOS app ignores iOS Photos' albums and favorites, and is practically the only app on my phone that doesn't allow me to share a picture into it from the camera/photos app. I went ahead and wrote my own app that provides the share extension and hooks up to the Google Photos API, but even with that I can't write photos to albums that weren't created by my app. It seems like Google _really_…

The Google Photos iOS app just uploads all photos that my iPhone takes automatically, regardless of album. Yours doesn't?

The issue is you have an existing photo in your iCloud that is not in your camera roll (which is something iOS can automatically do so many people have this use case) there was no easy way to transfer those photos to Google.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by m463 » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:47 PM UTC

If they're a privacy company, they should just offer a dedicated home server for this sort of thing.

personal icloud, with all the apple trimmings. It is ok to sell this to you and charge money.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by adrr » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:48 PM UTC

elliottkember wrote: post #72

dangwu wrote: post #68

If 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…

I don't know whether you're on iOS, but if you are, the app on the app store called "Gemini" has been a game-changer for me in this regard.

Gemini is a great app. I wish apple photos or google photos had similar features. Even Lightroom needs it since 1/5 of my photos are out of focus.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by baby » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:51 PM UTC

I really really hate how locked I am on the products I own...

I pay for Apple music yet I can't play it on my Google home.

I use Google maps yet in some apps it forces me to use Apple maps (even though I don't have it installed).

I use Google photos, which I can't use to manage my photos in the native way that Apple photos do it.

Airdrop only works between Apple devices.

I use Chrome and yet some apps will just open links in Safari (iOS).

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by mnutt » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:54 PM UTC

dangwu wrote: post #42

mnutt wrote: post #10

I was surprised that Google's iOS app ignores iOS Photos' albums and favorites, and is practically the only app on my phone that doesn't allow me to share a picture into it from the camera/photos app. I went ahead and wrote my own app that provides the share extension and hooks up to the Google Photos API, but even with that I can't write photos to albums that weren't created by my app. It seems like Google _really_…

The Google Photos iOS app just uploads all photos that my iPhone takes automatically, regardless of album. Yours doesn't?

My iPhoto photo set is much, much larger than Google Photos storage cap; I just want to share a couple of photos with family. But yeah, that sort of explains it. They're pushing you to just store everything in Google Photos.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by enos_feedler » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:56 PM UTC

baby wrote: post #126

I really really hate how locked I am on the products I own... I pay for Apple music yet I can't play it on my Google home. I use Google maps yet in some apps it forces me to use Apple maps (even though I don't have it installed). I use Google photos, which I can't use to manage my photos in the native way that Apple photos do it. Airdrop only works between Apple devices. I use Chrome and yet some apps will just open…

At least being able to move your photos out of Apple Photos is a step towards not locking you into Apple's ecosystem. I don't think the ultimate goal is removing lock in completely. It's a fools errand to try and defeat it. The goal should be to free you from being locked into a company that takes it too far. This creates free choice and a market opportunity for another business to serve people like you.

Also .. I thought Apple Music was added to Google Home? I thought Apple now allows you to choose Google Maps as default mapping app?

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by hkh28 » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:57 PM UTC

s1k3s wrote: post #102

jrullman wrote: post #11

Part of the Data Transfer Project? https://datatransferproject.dev/

Also, wasn't this mandatory in EU? Something related to GDPR?

Yes, data portability is a requirement in the GDPR. You should not be locked in to a service just because they have your data.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by robertoandred » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 6:58 PM UTC

prlin wrote: post #18

Alupis wrote: post #15

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> A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon Google has always charged for storage in Google Photos - it's part of your "Google Drive" storage quota. They do give you 10GB free though, which can be substantial for a lot of folks.

There was a free tier of photos and videos under a certain resolution which didn't count towards your storage which they're removing.

Those "free" photos and videos were still recompressed.