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Apple Adds Uploading Capabilities to iCloud Photos on iCloud.com Beta Site

My photos will continue to be stored on my inexpensive array of drives that I own with occasional drives taken off site. In no way will I pay rent to store my photos on Apple's or any other cloud rental service.
 
Cinch said:
iCloud for Photos is the best thing Apple did this year! And I include the iPhone 6, Watch etc on this list.

I can finally delete erroneous videos and duplicate photos!!! Thank you jesus.

Now lets do the same for Music and playlist syncing.

Yes, I'm modest in my request, but how many of us here are relieve now that we are able to organize our videos/photos from any machine?

I can't wait for the Photos app. One library to rule them all!
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playlist syncing - YES!
 
Wait... there's a Beta iCloud?? I think the regular iCloud is already beta enough ;-)

Still far too unreliable to trust my documents to iCloud Drive. No way I'm putting years of photos on there as well... And the day Photostream works reliable is the day hell freezes over I guess.
 
icloud messages

I really like the work apple has been doing with icloud.com. I really would love to see messages added at some point. I feel that would be a strong addition!!!
 
I see no iCloud photos on the iCloud.com site, beta or otherwise. How do I see them?
 
Cinch said:
iCloud for Photos is the best thing Apple did this year! And I include the iPhone 6, Watch etc on this list.

I can finally delete erroneous videos and duplicate photos!!! Thank you jesus.

Now lets do the same for Music and playlist syncing.

Yes, I'm modest in my request, but how many of us here are relieve now that we are able to organize our videos/photos from any machine?

I can't wait for the Photos app. One library to rule them all!
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You can already do music and playlist syncing with iTunes Match.
 
hofer said:
I see no iCloud photos on the iCloud.com site, beta or otherwise. How do I see them?
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in order to see photos you must enable it through the iCloud settings on your device (iphone or ipad) once you do that then the photos icon will appear when you log into icloud.com
 
maflynn said:
I agree, but its not like they're inexperienced in this, so the pace shouldn't be too slow. They've had iTools (the mobile me predecessor) 12 years ago.
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True, but if at every WWDC they replace two elements of iCloud, it means they can do this forever and keep iCloud relevant, useful and hopefully as bug-free as possible.
 
5 Gigs for the entire icloud doesn't really do it for me. Even converted to jpg I'm gonna need a lot more than that. Since the competitors give you a lot more space I'm just not willing to pay a monthly fee for what others give me for free.

So for now No Thank You Apple.
 
BeamWalker said:
5 Gigs for the entire icloud doesn't really do it for me. Even converted to jpg I'm gonna need a lot more than that. Since the competitors give you a lot more space I'm just not willing to pay a monthly fee for what others give me for free.

So for now No Thank You Apple.
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Not saying this to be a jerk or anything...but where can you get 200gb of storage for less than 2.99 a month??? I'm asking because I want to know where to sign up for that
 
proline said:
Let's check out your first reference, smart guy- "And iCloud Photo Library, in beta, stores every photo and video you take"

How about the second one- "That’s where the Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, in beta, come in".

You'd have to be pretty dense to miss the fact that Apple isn't saying this is ready for prime time.
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I guess you didn't see where I wrote that just slipping "in beta" doesn't excuse the fact that they promoted this feature as a part of Continuity (online and during the latest Keynote) and it's anything but continuous if you have the vast majority of your photos stored on your Mac in iPhoto or Aperture...like so many of us do.

It's in beta but missing 33% of it's intended use (Mac, iPad, iPhone) and seems like they easily could have just left the Camera Roll/PhotoStream arrangement until the Mac app was ready enough to be used in a beta to avoid a lot of confusion even among their most Apple-educated of customers.
 
ilfn143 said:
first pricing $7/month you'll get office 365 + 1TB storage and they'll increase it to unlimited (or click on the link above to get unlimited ;))
2 there are software for mac/windows/linux iOS Android WP
3 you can upload any kind of files there
4 organize your files/folders same way as on your computer

cool thing is i synced my phone photos/videos there and i deleted them from my phone to free up space. i can view over 200GB of my photos collection anytime thru the app on any device i want :)
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Currently I have had to turn off one drive on 5 Mac computers because it uses 100% of this CPU. It will take an i7 to it's knees within minutes... There are countless threads on the issue:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/drive/sKV3JL5QQvA
 
Paying monthly for storage isn't for me, and won't ever be. Make iCloud Photos a part of the OSX Server package, and let me manage my own cloud. Hell, you can even increase the cost of the server package to $200, or more. It's as much about owning and controlling my own data as much as it is about price for me.
 
PatriotInvasion said:
I guess you didn't see where I wrote that just slipping "in beta" doesn't excuse the fact that they promoted this feature as a part of Continuity (online and during the latest Keynote) and it's anything but continuous if you have the vast majority of your photos stored on your Mac in iPhoto or Aperture...like so many of us do.

It's in beta but missing 33% of it's intended use (Mac, iPad, iPhone) and seems like they easily could have just left the Camera Roll/PhotoStream arrangement until the Mac app was ready enough to be used in a beta to avoid a lot of confusion even among their most Apple-educated of customers.
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It's not slipped in, it's in the headline in the same font as everything else. If you don't get that, you certainly aren't the 'most Apple-educated customer'.
 
this will be great for the proliferation of memes and inspirational quotes in instagram and the like. superduper :rolleyes:
 
Space cadet

There is no mention of the fact that constantly syncing this large volume of stuff constantly severely drains your cpu -you will hear and watch it deplete your storage space non-stop and wonder "where is my hard drive space going?"- Not bad enough that programs like iphoto make duplicates every time you want to edit a photo-how much space to we have and or will need? Forget about it.
 
ilfn143 said:
first pricing $7/month you'll get office 365 + 1TB storage and they'll increase it to unlimited (or click on the link above to get unlimited ;))
2 there are software for mac/windows/linux iOS Android WP
3 you can upload any kind of files there
4 organize your files/folders same way as on your computer

cool thing is i synced my phone photos/videos there and i deleted them from my phone to free up space. i can view over 200GB of my photos collection anytime thru the app on any device i want :)
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A lot of the benefits of using Apple services is you get full and completely integration between all your iOS devices, Macs, Apple TVs etc. You simply don't get that with the third party stuff from Google, Microsoft, or even DropBox.

I have a few of the Microsoft apps on my iPhone purely for work use and they are awful and don't feel or work native at all. Google has been doing the same thing lately.
 
shotts56 said:
Oh for goodness sake. You do realise that most people on the planet don't give a toss about this ?
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To each their own but there seems to be a growing amount of people that DO care, especially after the whole Snowden thing.
 
I dont want all my phots on all my devices

Why does everything always have to be "SYNCED"?!?!?!?!
I don't need an exact copy of my entire photo library or photo stream or whatever the hell they want to call it now, on every singe Apple device that I own.

I don"t want EVERY single picture I take on my iPhone or iPad to be archived and sent to all of my devices, but I do want to be able to store (selected) photos in iCloud photo, that don't exist on my phone.
There should be more direct user control here.

I would think the point of having photos stored in "the cloud" would be to not have to have them stored on your mobile device taking up.......storage-?
like how flickr works-? My flickr photos aren't actually stored on my phone.

iCloud photos (all iCloud content actually) should be accessible on mobile devices via web browser, or why don't they just create an iCloud app-? that to access content?

Ever try visiting iCloud.com on your iPhone? uh huh... fail.
 
Disappointing that Apple decided to send iPhoto downhill, as it's been my mainstay for years since it "just works". Unfortunately Apple killed off home network sharing of photos, and we would never put family photos in the cloud, so this is just wasted development effort as far as I'm concerned. While Apple's closed model, one size fits all mentality may work in the short term, it'll be their undoing over the long haul.
 
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