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Google Announces Android 'M' Developer Preview, Android Pay and Free Unlimited Photo Storage

Apple's cloud plans are just ridiculous. I have been using unlimited storage from MS for a while now, and this is despite the fact that I havent paid MS $750 for a device. Considering in addition Apple's cloud services are basically only available on Apple devices, any user is guaranteed to have paid Apple money.

In addition, while Google Now is still not very useful, it is far outpacing anything Apple is doing with Siri, whose only purpose now seems to be creating alarms, and as a punchline in stand up comedy routines. Siri, while underpowered, was great as a v1.0 when it was released 4 years ago! It's barely budged since then. Quite fascinating how Apple hasn't done anything with it.
 
Yawn....

I was yawning the whole way through the keynote. Nothing exciting and mostly just more Apple copy. Only thing I think Apple should match is unlimited storage! Apple is charging and makes them look like they are money hungry when compared!
 
BSben said:
I love the Google Photos icon, it doesn't look anything like Apple's Photos icon :rolleyes:
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You need to head out more, Google Photos' icon has been around for a lot longer.

Geez, all this mud tossing is ridiculous - they take turns upping and catching up to each other, neither is "the one".
 
OldSchoolMacGuy said:
Same as every Google privacy policy. They get to index and analyze the contents of all your stuff. They take things like location and time and date data to build a better profile of you. Where you go, what you do, who you're there with, and more. Then they use that data to sell ads.
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Oh, and don't forget, when they want to, the government can come and get that information about you for their permanent dossier - as Google keeps it forever. As we saw from the Snowden documents, the NSA was just stealing what they could from Google outside of the "legal" requests for information on individuals.

I really like the idea that Apple hasn't gone down this slippery slope like Google has always done and Microsoft does now - but you have to pay for storage as a result (of Apple not monetizing your data / photos).
 
"Free unlimited photo storage", right. Rather, someone at Google calculated that for photos the data is worth more than the space.
 
navaira said:
The funny thing is the Google Photos screenshot looks the same as Yosemite Photos app. The ultimate interface goal shared by all major players in the game in 2015: make it white.
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It hurts my eyes.....looks plain and ugly. I have always said that about Windows and now they are all doing it.
 
Sasparilla said:
Oh, and don't forget, when they want to, the government can come and get that information about you for their permanent dossier - as Google keeps it forever. As we saw from the Snowden documents, the NSA was just stealing what they could from Google outside of the "legal" requests for information on individuals.

I really like the idea that Apple hasn't gone down this slippery slope like Google has always done and Microsoft does now - but you have to pay for storage as a result (of Apple not monetizing your data / photos).
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Are you aware that NSA stealing was not known by Google and, in fact, it accelerated the full encryption of all the data and communications between data centers.

And are you aware that if the NSA asks Apple Apple has to provide the information like Google, Microsoft or any other USA company?
 
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Still no announcement of Android Wear compatibility with iOS? What a big disappointment :mad:
 
I don't think I'll ever own another Android device... for sure now...

This scares the crap out of me:

"Google Now"-

"When tapping on the home button, Google Now is able to read the content of any app that's running and bring up relevant, contextually aware Google Now cards. Apps don't need to implement support -- it works automatically."

So basically that means that the content of all your android apps are being index by Google? (or at the very least available to Google at all times in any app?) How long has Google been doing this already?

Hopefully I'm misunderstanding something...
 
JackANSI said:
I don't think I'll ever own another Android device... for sure now...

This scares the crap out of me:

"Google Now"-

"When tapping on the home button, Google Now is able to read the content of any app that's running and bring up relevant, contextually aware Google Now cards. Apps don't need to implement support -- it works automatically."

So basically that means that the content of all your android apps are being index by Google? (or at the very least available to Google at all times in any app?) How long has Google been doing this already?

Hopefully I'm misunderstanding something...
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How do you think Siri finds the app you called for to execute something specific like booking an appointment or finding movie listings? There's always a form of indexing going on, so that services like Google Now or Siri are made "aware" of what they can work with and give you contextual results relevant to what you're doing.

How this indexation is relayed tho, is another question.
 
Except how many phones can use android pay if it needs a fingerprint reader, and of the ones who actually have that how many can read reliably, quickly and easily like the iPhone can? I honestly don't know the answer I assume its not many
 
Death2Atron said:
I do! But I end up editing and saving maybe a fraction of them. I don't need 100+ gb of little snapshot, candid moments.
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Agreed, but I (along with many friends) don't want to spend the time to filter through pictures/videos. After a trip or outing I just want to do a media dump. Also, if you have tried onedrive, they do auto tagging. You can easily and quickly locate almost any photos you need. I'm not saying your way is not good, but I'd prefer the automation process.
 
newdeal said:
Except how many phones can use android pay if it needs a fingerprint reader, and of the ones who actually have that how many can read reliably, quickly and easily like the iPhone can? I honestly don't know the answer I assume its not many
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It doesn't need a fingerprint reader
 
OldSchoolMacGuy said:
Remember that the reasoning for it is much different. Google analyzes all your photos, uses location data, and more to build a better profile about you, which they can sell to advertisers. Because of this, Google makes money off your photos and can afford to give you unlimited storage at no cost.

Apple doesn't do this so they charge for storage.

Simply two different business models.
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Yea, because Apple really needs that extra $$, right ;)
 
newdeal said:
Except how many phones can use android pay if it needs a fingerprint reader, and of the ones who actually have that how many can read reliably, quickly and easily like the iPhone can? I honestly don't know the answer I assume its not many
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Android phones with fingerprint readers will become more common - just like Apple Pay's NFC payments don't work on anything but the iPhone 6/6+ and the Watch, all future models will have NFC and it'll gain more traction that way.
 
JackANSI said:
I don't think I'll ever own another Android device... for sure now...

This scares the crap out of me:

"Google Now"-

"When tapping on the home button, Google Now is able to read the content of any app that's running and bring up relevant, contextually aware Google Now cards. Apps don't need to implement support -- it works automatically."

So basically that means that the content of all your android apps are being index by Google? (or at the very least available to Google at all times in any app?) How long has Google been doing this already?

Hopefully I'm misunderstanding something...
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always been like this. i got an email with my plane ticket to rome in my emails once and my old nexus automatically reminded me to get to the airport on time and showed me the current weather in rome.
 
EdgardasB said:
Not from Apple. They even don't give 5GB iCloud storage in addition when you buy 20GB or bigger storage plan. We pay for 20GB and we get those 20GB, 5GB which is "free" disappears.
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What you mean to say is you're buying 15GB and you get to keep that 5GB for free!
 
crsh1976 said:
How do you think Siri finds the app you called for to execute something specific like booking an appointment or finding movie listings? There's always a form of indexing going on, so that services like Google Now or Siri are made "aware" of what they can work with and give you contextual results relevant to what you're doing.

How this indexation is relayed tho, is another question.
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I thought Apple made certain things available to larger developers to integrate Siri in apps rather than Siri/Apple indexing on their own (hence the reason smaller app devs have to use CalDAV, reminder, etc workarounds to get Siri support)

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bushido said:
always been like this. i got an email with my plane ticket to rome in my emails once and my old nexus automatically reminded me to get to the airport on time and showed me the current weather in rome.
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I know Google does this with emails already... but to have access the content of any app is a bit new to me.
 
bushido said:
always been like this. i got an email with my plane ticket to rome in my emails once and my old nexus automatically reminded me to get to the airport on time and showed me the current weather in rome.
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How do you feel about the US Government having that information as well???

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JackANSI said:
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I know Google does this with emails already... but to have access the content of any app is a bit new to me.
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Yup I didn't believe it as well until a friend hacked his device and showed me the amount of data that was being sent to google when using a third party app.
 
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