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Carousel is backed by a huge storage array, and automatically backs up every picture. The author seems to have missed the critical elements of how it works!

by brians 12y ago

desigooner 12y ago
For what it's worth, the Flickr app now automatically backs up every picture; so do Picturelife & OneDrive. They all are backed by a storage array that is quite a bit economical when compared to Dropbox's current rates.
- Mithaldu 12y ago
  I find this claim fairly annoying, since the free Flickr service only allows me retrieve my photos in a very down-sized format. Or did they change that in the past few years?
  - samastur 12y ago
    I don't know, but unless your photo collection is really small (few GB) you'll quickly have to pay for its Dropbox storage at which point Flickr will be much cheaper (25$ unlimited per year).
- brians 12y ago
  I don't believe Flickr keeps and returns to you the same videos you sent it; OneDrive may, but I don't know. If yahoo shuts down Flickr tomorrow, it's users are screwed. If Dropbox shuts down tomorrow, all my pictures are on a handful of drives. Again, major difference in how it works. Dropbox turned down buying Everpix last year, who had been an extremely promising photo management startup---because DB we're working on this. Most relevantly, the author of this article gives lip service in the first few paragraphs to the idea that design is how the system works, then reviews them based on the surface UI. He doesn't seem to look at the sync protocols of sync-focused apps!
dsfreed 12y ago
Sure, but consumers don't care or know (for the most part) what a storage array even is!
acdha 12y ago
One detail you missed: none of that functionality is new to Carousel – the existing Dropbox app already does all of that automatically as well. The only selling point so far is that if someone else uses it to send you pictures, it's slightly easier to save them. Otherwise it's really limited - you can't even do Flickr 1.0 things like group items from multiple days together. I'm assuming there's a plan to make it more interesting but so far I've had very little reason not to just open the familiar Dropbox app.

Carousel is backed by a huge storage array, and automatically backs up every picture. The author seems to have missed the critical elements of how it works!

by brians 12y ago

Carousel is backed by a huge storage array, and automatically backs up every picture. The author seems to have missed the critical elements of how it works!

desigooner 12y ago

For what it's worth, the Flickr app now automatically backs up every picture; so do Picturelife & OneDrive. They all are backed by a storage array that is quite a bit economical when compared to Dropbox's current rates.

Mithaldu 12y ago
I find this claim fairly annoying, since the free Flickr service only allows me retrieve my photos in a very down-sized format. Or did they change that in the past few years?
- samastur 12y ago
  I don't know, but unless your photo collection is really small (few GB) you'll quickly have to pay for its Dropbox storage at which point Flickr will be much cheaper (25$ unlimited per year).
brians 12y ago
I don't believe Flickr keeps and returns to you the same videos you sent it; OneDrive may, but I don't know. If yahoo shuts down Flickr tomorrow, it's users are screwed. If Dropbox shuts down tomorrow, all my pictures are on a handful of drives. Again, major difference in how it works. Dropbox turned down buying Everpix last year, who had been an extremely promising photo management startup---because DB we're working on this. Most relevantly, the author of this article gives lip service in the first few paragraphs to the idea that design is how the system works, then reviews them based on the surface UI. He doesn't seem to look at the sync protocols of sync-focused apps!

dsfreed 12y ago

Sure, but consumers don't care or know (for the most part) what a storage array even is!

acdha 12y ago

One detail you missed: none of that functionality is new to Carousel – the existing Dropbox app already does all of that automatically as well. The only selling point so far is that if someone else uses it to send you pictures, it's slightly easier to save them. Otherwise it's really limited - you can't even do Flickr 1.0 things like group items from multiple days together. I'm assuming there's a plan to make it more interesting but so far I've had very little reason not to just open the familiar Dropbox app.