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It is often good for the ecosystem that we have choice of tools for a given task, so I applaud the general effort gone into this additional "Google Photos 'Clon
by Rygian 2y ago
It is often good for the ecosystem that we have choice of tools for a given task, so I applaud the general effort gone into this additional "Google Photos 'Clone'".
Here the challenge is to actually understand what "Google Photos" is before claiming that this is a Clone.
In order to successfully clone Google Photos, one needs:
1.- A backing storage.
2.- A web application.
3.- A mobile application (and optionally a desktop application).
4.- A data synchronization model to maintain a 2-way sync between backing storage and each locally installed application.
5.- A data model of pictures, timeline, and albums, that does not depend on where the picture is physically stored (for example, I can create an album on my phone offline, and whenever I come online the sync happens and the same album appears on the web application view).
6.- AI features (eg. face detection) sprinkled on top of the backing storage, and available on both web application and locally installed applications.
From a cursory review, this current attempt only satisfies 1 and 2.
- Terretta 2y ago7.- A method to proactively decrease quality of all images to save storage, and delete all images if you don't look at them for 2 years or have too many. https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791 https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791
- niknetniko 2y agoI don't get what this means? - There an option to compress images before uploading (which is probably on by default). Not unreasonable. - Content is deleted if you do not access Google Photos in any way during two years AND do not have a paid storage plan. Not unreasonable. - If you use more storage than you pay for during two years, content will be deleted. Again, not unreasonable. I really do no get the complaint here.
- Rygian 2y agoI upload my pictures with quality q=X. The next day I download a picture. Quality is q=Y, where Y < X. One year after, I download the same picture. Quality is q=Z, where Z < Y < X. So my pictures uploaded to Google Photos suffer from decay, whenever Google chooses to degrade quality. None of your "not unreasonable" scenarios are involved.