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Sad as I am to see "unlimited" go away, this is probably the best way to do it: * Grandfathering existing photos means I don't have to worry about going back a
by advisedwang 6y ago
Sad as I am to see "unlimited" go away, this is probably the best way to do it:
* Grandfathering existing photos means I don't have to worry about going back and deleting objects or getting an sudden bump in cost.
* 15 GB is pretty generous... iCloud includes 5GB for free.
* $2/month isn't a huge jump to the next level of storage.
- ryanobjc 6y agoTo be clear the 'high quality' is still unlimited. Only the 'original quality' will be quotaed.
- sgrinich 6y agoHeads up on the term 'grandfathering' and the racial overtones of what this means: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/10/21/239081586/the-racial-history-of-the-grandfather-clause https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/10/21/239081586...
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- gabagool 6y agoWhat term should be used instead?
- ttam 6y agosunset?
- Rebelgecko 6y agoPerhaps I'm having getting whooshed here, but sunset has a racist connotation just as bad as "grandfathering" (or arguably worse). Plus it means something different. When I hear that I product it being sunset, to me that means 100% dead, even for preexisting users
- advisedwang 6y agoWhat is the racist undertone to "sunset?" Currently I assume sunset is just a play on sunset being the end of the day, which is a pretty universal experience.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoDuring the Jim Crow area, many towns and cities put up signs that read N*****, Don’t Let the Sun Set On You in $CITY_NAME African-American laborers could come into town for work during the day, but any who found themselves there after dark were liable to be lynched or otherwise hassled out of town. While African-Americans were the most common target, Asian-Americans[0] and Jews were sometimes the subject of these warnings/threats. The cities that put up these signs and highway billboards became known as Sunset Towns (although in the last 2 decades the term "Sundown town"[1] became more popular[2]). The Negro Motorist Green Book was a travel guide that was written to help black people plan roadtrips. It acknowledged that "the White traveler has had no difficulty in getting accommodations, but with the Negro it has been different". The Green Book warned about Sunset towns and had pointers for finding friendly lodgings. Sunset towns weren't limited to the Deep South: New England and California also took part in the practice, and Route 66 was notoriously difficult for black travelers. Afroman immortalized a Californian sundown town and its racial housing covenant in his song "Colt 45"[3]: Well, it was just sundown in a small white town They call it East Side Palmdale When the Afroman walked through the white land Houses went up for sale Well, I was standing on the corner sellin' rap CDs When I met a little girl named Jan, I let her ride in my Caddy 'Cause I didn't know her daddy was the leader of the Ku Klux Klan [0]: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BLlJwLdIRpk/RZ1Bfy6G8CI/AAAAAAAAABE/tb6Vm6QYSk0/s400/RoseHill.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BLlJwLdIRpk/RZ1Bfy6G8CI/AAAAAAAAAB... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town [2]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sunset+town%2Csundown+town&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=2&case_insensitive=true https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sunset+town%2C... [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH2ukQdF-0U&t=1m21s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH2ukQdF-0U&t=1m21s
- acheron 6y agoExcellent example of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy
- advisedwang 6y agoThanks for sharing!
- sgrinich 6y agoNp, someone pointed this out to me at work a few months back, it's interesting how words we use often have such unexpected origins.
- QUFB 6y agoIt is a sad reflection on HN that comments like this are so aggressively downvoted.
- refurb 6y agoAnd people like to listen to NPR because they claim it’s “unbiased”.
- judge2020 6y agoAnd what a shame iCloud's included storage is. One device's backups can dangerously close to 5gb without trying, and any additional device backups will easily push you over 5gb, effectively forcing you into the $1/mo storage plan or $4/mo if you want to share 200gb total with your family.
- dzhiurgis 6y agoThe worst part about iCloud is how slow it is and how much Photos on macOs crash. It’s barely usable for anything but previewing photos.
- theshrike79 6y agoYMMV, I've got 300GB of photos in iCloud and I can count the amount of Photos crashes in the last 5 years with one hand.
- dzhiurgis 6y agoI think I've got just a slight more and I can't count how many times it crashed within a week. It's abandonware.
- tlburke 6y agoThat's exactly what happened to my mother, she owns an iPad and an iPhone and she's constantly being squeezed for money because her two devices' backups max out her storage. She rarely takes photos and doesn't upload anything to iCloud drive, it's just her backups.
- theshrike79 6y agoService business is good business. It's easy to get people paying the $1 for extra backup space. Now you have their credit card in Apple Pay and you can get them paying for more stuff.