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Going for iCloud, that's an odd decision, frankly. I would have understood Google Drive, but not iCloud. When it comes to my personal photos archive, I care ab

Going for iCloud, that's an odd decision, frankly. I would have understood Google Drive, but not iCloud. When it comes to my personal photos archive, I care about 2 things: (1) occasional sharing and (2) keeping my huge archive safe. Dropbox does both, iCloud does neither. iCloud sharing only works with people using iDevices and I don't have many acquaintances or family members with a preference for Apple. Dropbox allows for publishing to a web link, with or without a password, with or without an expiration date. And that's cool, because I can send that link to anybody. Cross-platform and all that. In terms of safety, I keep an extra offline backup by means of a home Linux server that's almost always on, synchronizing my Dropbox and does the occasional local backup. It has a big hard-drive of course. Dropbox works on Linux, iCloud does not. Also Dropbox provides a 30-days history of all changes and a 1-year extended history for extra cost. I got the 1-year extended history. With iCloud get some Ransomware and watch in horror how all of your photos are gone.

victorhooi 10y ago
Or look at the recent iTunes fiasco, where they deleted your music on the local HDD, and mis-matched the music in the cloud: https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/ https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-mus...
oarsinsync 10y ago
> When it comes to my personal photos archive, I care about 2 things: (1) occasional sharing and (2) keeping my huge archive safe. Dropbox does both, iCloud does neither. iCloud definitely does occasional sharing. Keeping your archive safe is definitely questionable though. > iCloud sharing only works with people using iDevices and I don't have many acquaintances or family members with a preference for Apple. Dropbox allows for publishing to a web link, with or without a password, with or without an expiration date. And that's cool, because I can send that link to anybody. Cross-platform and all that. I can do that with iCloud Photos. I select a bunch of photos I want to share, I select an existing (or create a new) iCloud shared photo library, and then I enable a web link for them and share that. Works on fruits, robots, glass panes and penguins.

victorhooi 10y ago

Or look at the recent iTunes fiasco, where they deleted your music on the local HDD, and mis-matched the music in the cloud: https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/ https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-mus...

oarsinsync 10y ago

> When it comes to my personal photos archive, I care about 2 things: (1) occasional sharing and (2) keeping my huge archive safe. Dropbox does both, iCloud does neither. iCloud definitely does occasional sharing. Keeping your archive safe is definitely questionable though. > iCloud sharing only works with people using iDevices and I don't have many acquaintances or family members with a preference for Apple. Dropbox allows for publishing to a web link, with or without a password, with or without an expiration date. And that's cool, because I can send that link to anybody. Cross-platform and all that. I can do that with iCloud Photos. I select a bunch of photos I want to share, I select an existing (or create a new) iCloud shared photo library, and then I enable a web link for them and share that. Works on fruits, robots, glass panes and penguins.