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Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by echelon »

kccqzy wrote: post #86
noAnswer wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I use iCloud now. As long as you don't use it to store music... Basically same story, different file type: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250315803

That's different on so many levels. The photos you take are unique. The music you bought are not. They are produced by someone else. I personally have no qualms when Apple replaced my ripped MP3s with a DRM-free version from the iTunes Store.

Apple shouldn't be looking at what you're storing and replacing it with something different. Nor should Google.

We shouldn't tolerate this business from any megacorp.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by kccqzy »

echelon wrote: post #91
kccqzy wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's different on so many levels. The photos you take are unique. The music you bought are not. They are produced by someone else. I personally have no qualms when Apple replaced my ripped MP3s with a DRM-free version from the iTunes Store.

Apple shouldn't be looking at what you're storing and replacing it with something different. Nor should Google. We shouldn't tolerate this business from any megacorp.

They surely can. iTunes Match is not marketed as a music backup service. Its raison d'être is to match your own music to music available in the iTunes Store. It's in the name.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by [deleted] »

noAnswer wrote: post #27
jrockway wrote: post #13

I got burned by this. I take 4x5 film photos and stored my library in Google Photos as 80 megapixel TIFF scans. One day, they told me I was out of storage, and that all the files were converted to phone-quality jpegs. They look awful. I got into this situation because I had a few terabytes of free storage that I accumulated while working at Google; there was some deal like "fill out this survey and we'll give your pe…

> I use iCloud now. As long as you don't use it to store music... Basically same story, different file type: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250315803

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Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by deepsun »

iscrewyou wrote: post #82
mcguire wrote: post #79

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Just like all of Google's other products?

I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

Any good replacements?

I mean, if people really miss Picasa (and I personally know several) -- it's worthwhile to reimplement it and make money.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by dimator »

iscrewyou wrote: post #82
mcguire wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just like all of Google's other products?

I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience?

The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on their ux and their ads.

It's a bit like saying you miss street fighter 2 cabinets. Ok but, there are no arcades left.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by drivebycomment »

wccrawford wrote: post #50
bennettfeely wrote: post #12

I'm stunned by the image showing the difference between original and what Google apparently considers "high quality"

I think that image is faked. The caption says the difference will exist, but "not by this much". It's a fake.

My guess here is that the image isn't fake per se, but it's missing the context.

I'm guessing the "original" is much higher resolution than 16MP. Google Photos' "high quality" being always limited to 16MP, my guess is that the comparison shot is between what I'm guessing at least 60MP or even 100MP image vs (downsampled) 16MP.

For more sane comparison of what "high quality" does, I find:

https://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-Photos-High-quality-v...

i.e. unless you have a camera with substantially higher resolution than 16MP or you're a professional photograph (or equivalent amateur who cares about subtle pixel level details), high quality is good enough for all casual photographers , which is basically 99% of us including myself.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by acover »

dimator wrote: post #95
iscrewyou wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience? The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on th…

Feedly replicated it when reader stopped.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by sp332 »

dimator wrote: post #95
iscrewyou wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience? The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on th…

It kept archives of defunct blogs. When Reader went away, they just deleted it all. Also, it's less useful for a smaller site to have social sharing features when we used to have a Google-sized network of readers.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by nitrogen »

kccqzy wrote: post #92
echelon wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple shouldn't be looking at what you're storing and replacing it with something different. Nor should Google. We shouldn't tolerate this business from any megacorp.

They surely can. iTunes Match is not marketed as a music backup service. Its raison d'être is to match your own music to music available in the iTunes Store. It's in the name.

The comments in that discussion said that iTunes Match was deleting songs and audio recordings, even those that it didn't match.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by Epitom3 »

dimator wrote: post #95
iscrewyou wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience? The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on th…

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