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> I smell a bubble in online photo storage. Every pic I take gets uploaded to G+, Facebook, Dropbox, and apparently now Amazon. I know what you mean. Lately I
by k2enemy 12y ago
> I smell a bubble in online photo storage. Every pic I take gets uploaded to G+, Facebook, Dropbox, and apparently now Amazon.
I know what you mean. Lately I've gotten the impression that companies aren't offering photo storage as a feature to entice more people to use their services, but that they want our photos for some reason. Maybe advances in image recognition let them use the photos to mine marketable data?
- general_failure 12y agoThings like geo data, people, dresses can all be detected and used to suggest various products.
- pavel_lishin 12y agoI wonder how much effort it would be to subject the images to some simple and reversible transform to foil that sort of thing. (e.g., extract every odd-numbered pixel to its own layer, rotate it by 180 degrees, and merge.)
- jrockway 12y agoI think it's simpler than this; they want to fully utilize their compute resources so they can squeeze suppliers for better prices. If Amazon can get a one cent discount on hard drives by buying more, then Amazon.com is cheaper to run.