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Google photos doesn't have a desktop app. Being able to sort pics on a desktop is just as important, if not moreso, as being able to sort pics on the web. Not e

Google photos doesn't have a desktop app. Being able to sort pics on a desktop is just as important, if not moreso, as being able to sort pics on the web. Not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp.

jbob2000 11y ago
That's kind of Google's modus operandi though, isn't it? They don't make desktop apps unless there is a distinct need for it (Google Earth, for example). They are all about the web!
- CaptSpify 11y ago
  I think that's the complaint though: Why take a perfectly fine working desktop application, move it to the web, then remove the desktop side? Presumably, if I wanted the web version, I would have started with the web version.
  - usrusr 11y ago
    Because a free great desktop app, paid for by a freemium (or free-for-ecosystem-lock-in) online service was quite a thing, but never a permanent/sustainable one. I suspect that I will use an utterly outdated version of picasa for quite a while, because it already wildly exceeds my demands for an offline snaps-management application in its current version. Hope they did not sneak in a kill-switch in a previous update.
  - degio 11y ago
    by the way, I can find a million alternative cloud based photo services, all with comparable features. On the other hand, there are very few desktop picture managers, especially on windows and linux.
- striking 11y ago
  Furthermore, Google Earth only existed on the desktop because Google bought Keyhole who made the app. Google would not have made it if it couldn't be on the web.
  - notatoad 11y ago
    Same with Picasa desktop app.
D_Guidi 11y ago
>not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp google thinks you're wrong. me too.
- mey 11y ago
  Google of course thinks that wrong, they want you on their platform. Doesn't mean it's what I want as a consumer (with a DSLR and NAS full of RAW images)
  - wstrange 11y ago
    You are not their target market - which is fine. There many good options for serious photographers. 90% of folks just want seamless backup and organization of their photos. Phone cameras are getting pretty amazing in quality these days. Google photos caters to that demand.
    - newjersey 11y ago
      Is there any public information on how "unlimited" the unlimited storage is on Google photos? Is there a built in rate limit or max size per account?
- ploxiln 11y ago
  Soon we'll all be running all our applications in facebook or googleplus or icloud, in a browser, in a virtual machine, on a proprietary-blob-driven all-in-one device. Apps will be announced with huge fanfare (the most innovative thing ever), they'll show up in front of you without any action required on your part, they will change drastically in front of your eyes, corner cases will be buggy, and then in a few months to a couple of years they'll disappear forever. yay, the future is almost here
  - marshray 11y ago
    Time to start working on the smaller, faster thing that gives its users more control on the other side of the pendulum.
xd1936 11y ago
> Being able to sort pics Google Photos is amazing, but sorting photos in it is pretty lackluster. You can make albums... That's about it. It's sort of like Gmail; They want you to worry less about your complex organization system, and just use their fantastic search instead.
- kuschku 11y ago
  > fantastic search Which is beaten by even PostgreSQL’s fulltext search in 'simple' mode. (At least for my mails). Hilariously bad.
  - wstrange 11y ago
    Photo search is pretty cool. I just searched for "James in the Mountains" and got photos of my Son in the mountains. I don't think postgres can do that :-)
    - themartorana 11y ago
      Yeah, it's hilariously good actually. I find myself evangelizing the search. It's brilliant, and for the first time in my life, I don't feel a need to organize my photos.
    - Jweb_Guru 11y ago
      It can, actually: https://github.com/postgrespro/imgsmlr https://github.com/postgrespro/imgsmlr :P
  - ChrisClark 11y ago
    I love the search. My wife wanted a photo of my son at the park on the slide. So I searched for 'slide'. All my photos that I've taken with any slide in it show up.
  - cname 11y ago
    Really? I've never not been able to find an email I was looking for in Gmail.
eva1984 11y ago
It is on the phone. Just not on desktop.

jbob2000 11y ago

That's kind of Google's modus operandi though, isn't it? They don't make desktop apps unless there is a distinct need for it (Google Earth, for example). They are all about the web!

CaptSpify 11y ago
I think that's the complaint though: Why take a perfectly fine working desktop application, move it to the web, then remove the desktop side? Presumably, if I wanted the web version, I would have started with the web version.
- usrusr 11y ago
  Because a free great desktop app, paid for by a freemium (or free-for-ecosystem-lock-in) online service was quite a thing, but never a permanent/sustainable one. I suspect that I will use an utterly outdated version of picasa for quite a while, because it already wildly exceeds my demands for an offline snaps-management application in its current version. Hope they did not sneak in a kill-switch in a previous update.
- degio 11y ago
  by the way, I can find a million alternative cloud based photo services, all with comparable features. On the other hand, there are very few desktop picture managers, especially on windows and linux.
striking 11y ago
Furthermore, Google Earth only existed on the desktop because Google bought Keyhole who made the app. Google would not have made it if it couldn't be on the web.
- notatoad 11y ago
  Same with Picasa desktop app.

D_Guidi 11y ago

>not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp google thinks you're wrong. me too.

mey 11y ago
Google of course thinks that wrong, they want you on their platform. Doesn't mean it's what I want as a consumer (with a DSLR and NAS full of RAW images)
- wstrange 11y ago
  You are not their target market - which is fine. There many good options for serious photographers. 90% of folks just want seamless backup and organization of their photos. Phone cameras are getting pretty amazing in quality these days. Google photos caters to that demand.
  - newjersey 11y ago
    Is there any public information on how "unlimited" the unlimited storage is on Google photos? Is there a built in rate limit or max size per account?
ploxiln 11y ago
Soon we'll all be running all our applications in facebook or googleplus or icloud, in a browser, in a virtual machine, on a proprietary-blob-driven all-in-one device. Apps will be announced with huge fanfare (the most innovative thing ever), they'll show up in front of you without any action required on your part, they will change drastically in front of your eyes, corner cases will be buggy, and then in a few months to a couple of years they'll disappear forever. yay, the future is almost here
- marshray 11y ago
  Time to start working on the smaller, faster thing that gives its users more control on the other side of the pendulum.

xd1936 11y ago

> Being able to sort pics Google Photos is amazing, but sorting photos in it is pretty lackluster. You can make albums... That's about it. It's sort of like Gmail; They want you to worry less about your complex organization system, and just use their fantastic search instead.

kuschku 11y ago
> fantastic search Which is beaten by even PostgreSQL’s fulltext search in 'simple' mode. (At least for my mails). Hilariously bad.
- wstrange 11y ago
  Photo search is pretty cool. I just searched for "James in the Mountains" and got photos of my Son in the mountains. I don't think postgres can do that :-)
  - themartorana 11y ago
    Yeah, it's hilariously good actually. I find myself evangelizing the search. It's brilliant, and for the first time in my life, I don't feel a need to organize my photos.
  - Jweb_Guru 11y ago
    It can, actually: https://github.com/postgrespro/imgsmlr https://github.com/postgrespro/imgsmlr :P
- ChrisClark 11y ago
  I love the search. My wife wanted a photo of my son at the park on the slide. So I searched for 'slide'. All my photos that I've taken with any slide in it show up.
- cname 11y ago
  Really? I've never not been able to find an email I was looking for in Gmail.

eva1984 11y ago

It is on the phone. Just not on desktop.