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Why would anyone use Google photos to begin with?
by wordofx 2y ago
Why would anyone use Google photos to begin with?
- buggeryorkshire 2y agoBecause it's the best option I've seen and it's one they haven't ruined?
- sofixa 2y agoApart from the fact that they probably use your photos for training, it's pretty good. Searching by people, locations, text or objects in the photo is awesome (I know Apple recently added something like that, but Google have had it for years). Also the storage allocation is shared with Google Drive, so if you already use/pay for it, it's included.
- mikedelfino 2y agoI use it to back up my photos and create shared albums during vacations.
- Larrikin 2y agoBecause it's the benchmark that other photo app alternatives strive to be. It's a nightmare privacy wise, but Google built the best solution and a lot of iPhone users just assume Apple was the leader without trying anything else. Thankfully there is immich which is working hard to duplicate the feature set without the privacy invasion.
- joejohnson 2y agoGoogle Photos strips the metadata from your photos in unpredictable ways. It is a UX nightmare and an awful backup solution.
- bdavbdav 2y agoIt’s dreadful in the UK. The face matching is on device and just doesn’t work. I can’t search by detected objects. It doesn’t integrate with iMessage for sending large batches of photos via iCloud.
- theshrike79 2y ago> It's a nightmare privacy wise Privacy and random cloud AI not looking at my photos is my #1 criteria when picking a cloud photo storage system
- Alifatisk 2y agoCheaper than iCloud, superior tools, less issues with connectivity.