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Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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

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Post by Barrin92 »

rakoo wrote: post #144

It is a bit sad to see something as simple as "you can now take your photos and put them where you want" become a newsworthy article. This is yet another demonstration that Digital Feudalism is alive and well, and just like its ancestor, we need to get rid of it by empowering people to be their own self

force protocols to be open would just about do it. People would trivially write cross-service applications on top and we could have an internet where people can freely move data around. Apple and Google would be delegated to the backend and users could choose the clients they want. It's honestly so trivial and uninvasive of a regulatory matter it's ridiculous. We're stuck in the 19th century railroad industry.

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Post by janaagaard »

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_…

> I was surprised that Google's iOS app ignores iOS Photos' albums and favorites.

They recently made it possible to synchronize favorites between Google Photos and Apple Photos. Beware that turning this on resets the favorites you had made in Google Photos, keeping just the ones you have in Apple Photos, but once it has been turned on the synchronization seems to go both ways between the apps.

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

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Post by robotresearcher »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #89
umeshunni wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Liechtenstein is a part of the EU and is subject to the same regulations as the rest of the EU. Launching a product in Japan or India require an entirely new set of legal and regulatory work.

> Liechtenstein is a part of the EU No it isn't, which is why Apple specifically calls it out when they also have an entry for "the European Union". Economic Area, yes, Union, no. And Switzerland is part of neither and has their own data regulation separate from the GDPR.

There is a single trade framework that contains them all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Single_Market

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

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

krrrh wrote: post #71
dangwu wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the first part of the Data Transfer Project - an initiative between major online service providers to provide an easy way to transfer data between their services.

That's interesting, and it's the first I've heard of the project. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Apple has yet released the adaptors to the open source project [1]. As much as I'm not interested in having Apple copy my photos to Google, I am very interested in scripting my own offline backups without having to make space for Photos.app to store all my photos on my laptop's SSD. Hopefully the adaptors are added t…

I am pretty sure this project is purpose built to keep your data amongst the big tech oligopoly. You exercising your freedom is no good for anyone.

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Post by jftuga »

ncann wrote: post #5

A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon, but it's still miles better than iCloud Photos in almost everything. From search, to timeline overview, to seamless integration with my Chromecast, to automatic face tagging, to editing.

Workaround: install the Google Opinion Rewards app which is even available on iPhone. It will ask you survey questions about places you have recently visited. (Yes, it tracks you). Over the course of a year, you can earn $20 in "virtual" money which can then be used to purchase the 100GB/year plan.

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Post by spullara »

lostlogin wrote: post #131
krrrh wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's interesting, and it's the first I've heard of the project. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Apple has yet released the adaptors to the open source project [1]. As much as I'm not interested in having Apple copy my photos to Google, I am very interested in scripting my own offline backups without having to make space for Photos.app to store all my photos on my laptop's SSD. Hopefully the adaptors are added t…

Once your library gets large, local storage is just too hard and expensive on a laptop. Photos.app seems to hate using external or network drives.

I've been using it on an external drive for ages. What kinds of issues have you run into?

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Post by fartcannon »

fungiblecog wrote: post #145

Just give us a ‘download all’ button with the ability to resume in the event of a failure. RSync has been around for a long time why reinvent the wheel for every different service. Welcome to Modern tech - constantly reinventing (square) wheel

But if I don't pretend your photos live in an ephemeral 'cloud', instead of where they really are - on my server, how can I trick you into letting me hide them behind a worse-than-even-just-using-FTP webpage.

Walled Gardens Must Die.

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

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Post by luplex »

fungiblecog wrote: post #145

Just give us a ‘download all’ button with the ability to resume in the event of a failure. RSync has been around for a long time why reinvent the wheel for every different service. Welcome to Modern tech - constantly reinventing (square) wheel

GDPR gives you this button. You can do a full data request. This was introduced for exactly this usecase, to make it possible to switch service providers.

Now only Google needs to be able to read Apple's format.

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Post by mszcz »

rakoo wrote: post #144

It is a bit sad to see something as simple as "you can now take your photos and put them where you want" become a newsworthy article. This is yet another demonstration that Digital Feudalism is alive and well, and just like its ancestor, we need to get rid of it by empowering people to be their own self

Yeah, it's the "lets you" part that ticks me off. That's the reason I have both Google Photos upload and Dropbox Upload enabled. Don't want to wake up one time to find out my photos are gone because some algo had a bad day.
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