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While we're talking about photos: How long is it going to be before iOS or Android (points to the winner!) partners with CVS or Walgreens to offer printing services for photos as an integrated part of the OS? Having cameras in everybody's pocket all the time (decent ones, too!) is a revolution. The next step is making it easy to put those photos on the fridge. I really love the reality of physical places having APIs.…
I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…
Supposing that they don't butcher the migration, what Snapjoy service do you love, which wouldn't benefit from a close integration with Dropbox?
My only beef with Dropbox is that the gap between free users and paid customers is too wide, price wise. I understand that customers have to subsidize the hordes of freeloaders, but $120 a year for 100GB doesn't feel right. Maybe they shouldn't try to be profitable yet.
Other than that, they've successfully sneaked a usable file system in iOS, they support all my devices including Linux, they "just work" unless you try to share writing rights, and they're going to get us rid of the dreadful iTunes, iPhoto and no doubt one day iBook/Kindle. That's super impressive.
While we're talking about photos: How long is it going to be before iOS or Android (points to the winner!) partners with CVS or Walgreens to offer printing services for photos as an integrated part of the OS? Having cameras in everybody's pocket all the time (decent ones, too!) is a revolution. The next step is making it easy to put those photos on the fridge. I really love the reality of physical places having APIs.…
(I just tried it with someone else's public album, so it at least works at the moment. A Google+ user number will also work in picasaweb.google.com urls. Set up the url, click through the redirect and there you go.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even big "safe" companies like Microsoft and Google discontinue services. It's probably better to accept the fact that services come and go as the price of progress and figure out how to live in such a world. This is actually one of the ironic casualties of the cloud. In the old days you bought your packaged software and it was pretty much guaranteed to work as long as you didn't change your setup (OS, hardware, etc)…
I've looked a little at ownCloud - I'd be interested in hearing about what other people have tried and found to be functional.
http://theopenphotoproject.org or https://openphoto.me or https://github.com/photo
Disclaimer, I'm the lead dev
I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…
> I'm a little bummed. I thought [...] they would be around for a while. Supposing that they don't butcher the migration, what Snapjoy service do you love, which wouldn't benefit from a close integration with Dropbox? My only beef with Dropbox is that the gap between free users and paid customers is too wide, price wise. I understand that customers have to subsidize the hordes of freeloaders, but $120 a year for 100G…
I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…
Even big "safe" companies like Microsoft and Google discontinue services. It's probably better to accept the fact that services come and go as the price of progress and figure out how to live in such a world. This is actually one of the ironic casualties of the cloud. In the old days you bought your packaged software and it was pretty much guaranteed to work as long as you didn't change your setup (OS, hardware, etc)…
And this led to a lot of other problems, for example, you couldn't keep up with new technological innovations because you needed older systems for some programs.
It's an interesting question, which practice is better.
While we're talking about photos: How long is it going to be before iOS or Android (points to the winner!) partners with CVS or Walgreens to offer printing services for photos as an integrated part of the OS? Having cameras in everybody's pocket all the time (decent ones, too!) is a revolution. The next step is making it easy to put those photos on the fridge. I really love the reality of physical places having APIs.…
I only ask to slake my mild curiosity at how these sorts of deals typically transpire when the two companies have shared investors.
I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…
Draft a user contract that companies can sign if they will. A Grover pledge for letting users get their money's worth, if you will. [Sparrow]( http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/ ) is a great example. They were acquired soon after the release of their iPhone app. That kinda soured me and many others. EDIT: The same could be done for other cases, obviously. Take usage rights on social photo services as a completely hypothe…
Imagine running a cloud service, where you make $10/month/user, and having to read through a separate contract for each person. Does that make sense?
The reality is, you have limited control over a product that you've paid $5, $50, or even $500 for. At most you can get a refund if you're unhappy with the service you received. You cannot force the team of developers to continue work on something, unless you're paying the millions of dollars that that costs.
While we're talking about photos: How long is it going to be before iOS or Android (points to the winner!) partners with CVS or Walgreens to offer printing services for photos as an integrated part of the OS? Having cameras in everybody's pocket all the time (decent ones, too!) is a revolution. The next step is making it easy to put those photos on the fridge. I really love the reality of physical places having APIs.…