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How about just letting me be able to plug my phone into any laptop and drag and drop my pictures?
You mean like has been possible since the first iPhone? Or am I missing something here - I plug in my iPhone and open the same Image Capture utility that I'd use with any other camera (or SD Card) and import my photos.
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.
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There was a free tier of photos and videos under a certain resolution which didn't count towards your storage which they're removing.
I was under the impression that was only for Pixel phone owners - I suppose I was mistaken! Although low resolution image uploads doesn't seem very useful for most people. The point of cloud storage is peace of mind to keep your data safe... and to me that implies the original photos not reduced resolution photos.
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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.
https://datatransferproject.dev/faq
or you could look at the source and see such big tech oligopolists as 'mastodon' and 'rememberthemilk' https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...
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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.
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> It's honestly so trivial and uninvasive of a regulatory matter it's ridiculous. At what point do you become compelled to start transforming your web application into an open protocol?
I think smaller companies tend to have the most open protocols (to the point that it almost becomes a security risk) because they don't have resources to work on unnecessary obfuscation. The protocols might not be documented anywhere but if a website is able to access a backend endpoint then someone else will be able to access that endpoint too. Nothing in the parent comment says anything about requiring good documen…
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
Rsync, the command line even, is familiar to vanishingly small slice of the Apple user base. It’s amazing how out of touch developers on HN are from the average Apple user. Completely, utterly, impossibly out of touch with reality. Try to imagine proposing a project like this to the internal teams at Apple and being asked “Who is this for!?”
Then Apple themselves and developers in the ecosystem can create nice GUIs for the "typical Apple user."
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Rsync, the command line even, is familiar to vanishingly small slice of the Apple user base. It’s amazing how out of touch developers on HN are from the average Apple user. Completely, utterly, impossibly out of touch with reality. Try to imagine proposing a project like this to the internal teams at Apple and being asked “Who is this for!?”
They don't have to make everyone type in `rsync -aBc foo bar` they just need to expose it in a way that rsync can work with it. Then Apple themselves and developers in the ecosystem can create nice GUIs for the "typical Apple user."
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Pretty sure even if Google doesn't support it explicitly, you'll have open source tools that can download + re-upload to Google.
That assumes Google provides API and authorizes the access, or else you're stuck scraping complex web apps with a Chrome extension. Custom 3rd party software is usually banned from a consumer cloud API for security reasons.
No incentive for Google to explicitly refuse photos from Apple for example.