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How much longer before they kill Picasa and Picasaweb, which just provide a different UI (and different editing software) for the same archive of photos?
by c5karl 11y ago
How much longer before they kill Picasa and Picasaweb, which just provide a different UI (and different editing software) for the same archive of photos?
- prawn 11y agoI have never seen Picasa used for anything but spam. Can't think of anyone I know who actually uses it properly.
- icefox 11y agoAll blogger images by default get hosted there (or in the same backend?).
- jaredsohn 11y agoI converted my parents over to Picasa when it came out and they still use it; they don't have interest in moving family photos over to the cloud. I am assuming that your comment re: spam is about is about Picasaweb (it doesn't make much sense to me for users to submit spam into their own desktop software). Perhaps a reason for this is that it mostly gets used by people who started with the desktop software and those people keep the photos private so that the only photos seen in public are spam?
- prawn 11y agoI get emails from companies who upload their product photos to Picasa and then use the share feature to spam. No matter how many I marked as spam, they still make it through unhindered.
- yellowapple 11y agoMy grandparents still rely on it exclusively for local photo storage, and use Microsoft's OneDrive for actual sharing. I've been gradually coaxing them into the idea of using Google's stuff for sharing instead of Microsoft's with the expectation that Picasa will someday start pushing daisies and a migration will be needed, but that hasn't happened yet.
- contingencies 11y agoI loved it. Quit using it when forced in to G+ land.
- thethimble 11y agoProbably pretty soon, no? Ars had an article entitled: "Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything". The claim was that Google builds multiple versions of its products targeted to slightly different market segments and use cases to hedge their investment. I think this is the perfect example (i.e. the fact that Google didn't just upgrade Picasa Web and built Google Photos instead). Given that Google Photos is most likely to succeed, it's just a matter of time before they shut down Picasa Web. [1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-strategy-make-two-of-everything/2/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-stra...