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Google Announces Android 'M' Developer Preview, Android Pay and Free Unlimited Photo Storage
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High quality option gives you unlimited storage, original resolution gives you what you have on Onedrive
Apple need to step up their game when it comes to photos. IPL is a joke, it has so many bugs: non-syncing photos, delays in uploading, randomly refusing to upload/download across devices, stating full storage when optimize storage is turned on and there is still space left on device, the list goes on.
Not to mention the horrible WHITE interface which should never be used for photos (do you watch movies with a black or white border? it's the same for photos, the content needs to be immersive).
I'm glad Google is offering unlimited photo storage so I can finally ditch Apple's crappy implementation. They are so far behind when it comes to cloud services and charge you premium for storage.
Not to mention the horrible WHITE interface which should never be used for photos (do you watch movies with a black or white border? it's the same for photos, the content needs to be immersive).
I'm glad Google is offering unlimited photo storage so I can finally ditch Apple's crappy implementation. They are so far behind when it comes to cloud services and charge you premium for storage.
No, you can't. Seems pretty useless though, to be honest. That's the whole fun behind creating photo albums, throwing them into a book and flipping though.
I understand it's not "new" but why did it take Google so long to realize how terrible that Google+ service was?
which name? m? it will have a sweet attached. android l was called l for quite a long time until the name lollipop was revealed.
I can understand why with not allowing 4k for free. Those files were huge on my Nexus 6 when I took some 4k video.
"Now on Tap" was the most interesting reveal to me. Contextual information exchange will be a fundamental anchor of computing in years to come. Google has taken the lead role in this space, while Apple lags way behind due to their stubborn app isolation. It's really frustrating that I can't ask Siri to play a song or artist on Spotify while I'm running. Let alone being able to ask questions about an artist shown on the screen like Now on Tap is promising.
They usually mean that only you can view the photos. Doesn't mean they can't scrape data from them like the metadata your phone adds to each one with time, date, settings, location, and more.
It's Google. They make their money off of your data. That's not to say that's bad by any means, just that it is how it is. They can give you the services you get for "free" because they're able to take that data you store with them and make money off of it. They don't just simply give you unlimited storage for nothing in return.
Gosh. A whole 7% increase. It's almost as if three new major flagship devices were shipped and sold in that time.
Google did really badly by making the Nexus 6 as expensive as other flagships.
Well, generally, I find WWDC pretty exciting, even if I try to see it from a simple user perspective.
This was the first time I watched I/O and it was mostly boring stuff with quite a few being ripped off from things that Apple already does.
I wonder who dares to upload their photos to Google Photo, and not be afraid of becoming public domain. Read the fine print just in case.
I'm assuming you're aware this new icon isn't new, it's been there for quite a while. >_>
Yes, that's because people buy cr*ap from Samsung or other brand that add ugly, bloated and useless custom GUI on top of Android. And then, they're locked at their current system version and the only way to upgrade is to buy a new device...
On the other hand, I bought a Google Nexus tablet two years ago, with bare Android GUI and I had no problem upgrading it to Lollipop. And the GUI with Material is pretty nice. I expect to upgrade it to M when the developer preview or whatever is available. And as a bonus, the device runs pretty fast without the extra custom layers eating CPU and RAM...
Same with my Android phone, I bought a Motorola with no custom GUI, hopefully I can upgrade it to M too...
That still means around 100m people are using Lollipop. :|
Other than the new iOS stuff, I find WWDC to be kind of bland as well.
They might do that in the US where you have little protection when you're an author. But in Europe, I could not make my photos public domain even if I wanted to, there is no legal way to do that... So, if Google sells or gives my photos to third parties, they would be going against the law...
And Google is not Facebook. They're not to bad. They will use your photos to target ads, it's their business model, but they don't try to gain property of them like Facebook. That's why a lot of pro photographers went from Facebook to Google+.