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Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by Barrin92 »

puszczyk wrote: post #198
Barrin92 wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>and then everyone just freezes capabilities then? Nothing evolves? Or if it does, it does so very unequally? every client provider can do whatever they want, that'd be the beauty of it. Someone could write a stripped down, privacy respecting Facebook client and charge users five bucks instead of running ads, if that's what users want. Someone could offer a chronological news-feed free of algorithmic meddling, or one…

What does the Facebook get out of it?

absolutely nothing, it would subject their applications to genuine competition (they could of course still offer their own client) and destroy their walled garden, which is the entire point. The purpose such regulation is to benefit consumers, developers, and the health of the market overall. not Facebook. I assume they would be kicking and screaming.

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Post by lupire »

dangwu wrote: post #36
BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #2

This 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…

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.

Sounds like a trust to keep minor providers out of the market.

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Post by oarsinsync »

rsync wrote: post #194

Does rclone[1] interface with iCloud Photos ? It works just fine with google photos[2] ... Without installing rclone and without using any of your own bandwidth, you should be able to: ssh user@rsync.net rclone icloud:/blah gphotos:/blah Or maybe you just want to keep a copy in your rsync.net account: ssh user@rsync.net rclone icloud:/blah /your/dir/tree [1] https://rclone.org [2] https://rclone.org/googlephotos/

> It works just fine with google photos

Second line in your link:

> NB The Google Photos API which rclone uses has quite a few limitations, so please read the limitations[0] section carefully to make sure it is suitable for your use.

For anyone intending to use rclone to download their photos from Google Photos, be aware that you will lose EXIF data. If you download videos, they will be lower quality. There are more limitations in the link.

[0] https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations

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Post by lupire »

capableweb wrote: post #65
reaperducer wrote: post #57

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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). Mea…

A laptop can be customized with accessories, same as a desktop can.

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Post by jpdaigle »

codys wrote: post #63

While 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 an…

Oh yes. I'd love to be able to hook up Google Assistant devices to my iCloud reminders lists, so that "remind me tomorrow to call the doctor" spoken to the Google Home would just nicely become an iOS reminder.

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Post by flipbrad »

jonas21 wrote: post #135
BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

If I had to guess, I'd say that Apple and Google probably have a contract that covers how this transfer takes place, and it takes some amount of effort from their legal teams to ensure that it's a valid contract that complies with the laws of each jurisdiction. As a result, they started with the highest-value jurisdictions like the US and EU first. Regarding Liechtenstein, it is (along with Iceland, Norway, and Switz…

GDPR covers the whole EEA (and UK), so the data portability right also applies in Liechtenstein.

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Post by dwighttk »

Barrin92 wrote: post #191
azinman2 wrote: post #174

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So, someone (who?) comes out with a standard, and then everyone just freezes capabilities then? Nothing evolves? Or if it does, it does so very unequally? Already in this announcement is the non-transfer of Live Photos because presumably Google doesn't support it. Apparently they also have a 20k per album cap, which at that point you get different behavior than you're expecting. These are just a few examples of where…

>and then everyone just freezes capabilities then? Nothing evolves? Or if it does, it does so very unequally? every client provider can do whatever they want, that'd be the beauty of it. Someone could write a stripped down, privacy respecting Facebook client and charge users five bucks instead of running ads, if that's what users want. Someone could offer a chronological news-feed free of algorithmic meddling, or one…

But I already have and use an rss reader

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Post by airhead969 »

navanchauhan wrote: post #9
airhead969 wrote: post #6

Doesn't the Google Photo app do this already without waiting? Is there a use-case for this?

If I understand correctly, this directly transfers data from Apple’s server to theirs. You don’t need to even install their app.

Seems like a one-time export, unless I'm wrong.

CloudHQ used to synchronize content between clouds but they seem to have fewer features these days.

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Post by Spooky23 »

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

It is newsworthy considering that they did this without being forced to do so. Things like telephone number porting weren’t possible until the Federal government forced the issue
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