Apple's Original Cloud Photo Sync Service Shuts Down This Summer (theverge.com) 17
My Photo Stream, the free cloud-based photo syncing feature Apple launched in 2011, is shutting down on July 26th, according to an Apple Support page spotted by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The Verge reports: The end of My Photo Stream won't come as too much of a surprise. Although it was free, it came with a long list of restrictions on the amount of photos you could upload, and these were only saved on Apple's servers for 30 days. Photos saved in the cloud then had to be manually saved locally if you wanted to keep them on a secondary device and, perhaps worst of all, 9to5Mac notes that high-quality photos weren't synced in their original resolution.
iCloud's free storage may be relatively limited at just 5GB, but at least it acts like a modern cloud storage service with photos and videos stored in their full resolution. Apple's support page notes that new photo uploads to My Photo Stream will come to an end on June 26th, and that the feature will disappear entirely a month later. "The photos in My Photo Stream are already stored on at least one of your devices," Apple's page notes, "So as long as you have the device with your originals, you won't lose any photos as part of this process."
iCloud's free storage may be relatively limited at just 5GB, but at least it acts like a modern cloud storage service with photos and videos stored in their full resolution. Apple's support page notes that new photo uploads to My Photo Stream will come to an end on June 26th, and that the feature will disappear entirely a month later. "The photos in My Photo Stream are already stored on at least one of your devices," Apple's page notes, "So as long as you have the device with your originals, you won't lose any photos as part of this process."
Apple Cloud? (Score:1)
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Re: Apple Cloud? (Score:2)
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I feel sorry for Apple, being so broke and ready to go oit of business that they couldn't offer something that was more than a forget/lose your photos trap.
30 day limit. You would expect whoever decided this would get the surprise deactivated keycard and security march off of the campus treatment, but in this world he likely got a raise, or at worst a nice golden
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No wonder (Score:3)
" Apple's servers for 30 days"
Well if the other stuff didn't kill it this did.
Need to retrieve your photos of your grandkids? No can do, you waited 31 days to do that! Why would they even bother to offer this clown milquetoast lose your photos service is beyond me.
They already do this with other shit. (Score:3)
I'm not defending them at all. Apple are evil vile fucks, and have always been. But the 30 days is what they with shit that's deleted from icloud too.
I mean, they only have $2.75 Trillion of market cap. How can you expect them to maintain storage when they have to bribe so many CCP officials to keep their child slave labor suicide net factories going? Did you know Tim Cook is a national hero in China thanks to getting whole cities built around Apple?
People are mad about storage, no one gives a fuck abou
Re: They already do this with other shit. (Score:2)
"30 days"
It's the kind of robotic thinking that discounts the fact that some of those photos are real valuable to their users, and that losing them could be devistating to them. From what I gathered from a reply to one of my posts of this subject, this service enables sync to all devices and this was likely meant to be used as a cache for those photos when they are being copied to those devices. But what if the user only has one Apple device. I imagine there are many grandparents who may have an iph
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It was actually quite a nice feature (Score:3)
I set up a simple batch script on my parents computer which would copy photos from the photo stream into a folder, which itself was monitored by their photo album software. It basically meant that any time they took a photo on their iPhone, it would be available to view on their Windows computer the next time they turned it on.
I'm now going to have to experiment with a couple of python scripts I've found on GitHub which claim to be able to do a similar thing.
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Because Apple is doing this for nothing more than greedy reasons. iCloud photo sync requires all, or nothing, syncs. All your photos need to be synced to iCloud. If you have 300GB of photos in Photos and enable iCloud sync, all 300GB needs to get synced, thus you need to buy 300GB of storage from Apple. It's nothing more than a money grab by poor destitute starving $2.8-Trillion-market-cap Apple. And it forces users to use their crappy Photos App.
Also because Photo Stream worked seamlessly as a photo b
Apple doesn't need their honeypot anymore (Score:1)
now they just look for kiddie porn directly on your Apple device [eff.org].