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

Android Pay, essentially a rebranded and improved version of Google Wallet, is an NFC-based mobile payments service with virtually identical functionality as Apple Pay.
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But is it?! Last I heard Apple stores info in a secure element... Do Android phone have that? This is a major security difference between the two that average consumers would miss... Oh it the same as Apple Pay! Derrrr.
 
Also, how many people are using Android 5.0?

It would be interesting to know, in absolute terms, whether more people are using iOS 8 than Android 5.0.
 
Meh...

All these things are offspring of Samsung and Google Copulating. Nothing new, innovative or noteworthy (unless your a Cloud Photo Gorilla.) :apple:

75% of all of Google's Mobile Ad Revenue comes from iOS Devices. Wonder how that will be someday? ;)
 
hagar said:
I'm disappointed that Apple presented the concept of iCloud Photo Library as an extension for your local storage. Not enough room on your iPhone? With iCloud all your images are with you all the time.

Not so much: they get downloaded locally. Even if you use the Optimise Storage option, you still need gigabytes of room on your local device. How much exactly? Nobody knows.

And guess what happens if you don't have that space? The whole thing falls apart! Thumbnails disappear, you cannot download photos to view or edit them, ... I still have 500MB available on my iPad, but iCloud says mehhh and just gives up.

Good idea, bad implementation.

Maybe Google has done it right? The cloud as unlimited storage for your mobile device?
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I much prefer the way Apple structured iCloud Photos. What do you think is going to happen when you have 1TB of of photos/videos with Google's solution? How are you going to access all your photos on your limited storage mobile device? My guess is Google is going to do it exactly the way Apple has. There simply is no other solution. And since when has Google and their ragtag group of Android OEMs done something right? After the mess that was Lollipop, I would hate to see what's going to happen to people's treasured photos.
 
FSMBP said:
I don't expect Apple to offer unlimited Photo Storage but having 5GBs for your entire device backup+email+photos/videos is greedy of them in 2015. That would have been fine in 2005 but not now. I know they offer paid tiers but their baseline free tier should be improved.
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or AT LEAST give 5GB per device - for those who have iPhone, iPad Mini, and iPad Air. 5GB can barely backup one device, nevermind all 3.
 
gccumber said:
But is it?! Last I heard Apple stores info in a secure element... Do Android phone have that? This is a major security difference between the two that average consumers would miss... Oh it the same as Apple Pay! Derrrr.
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Exactly. And no Touch ID either. Glad I'm sticking with iPhone. :)

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LordVic said:
its tech world. everyone has borrowed on everyone for years. we wouldn't be where we are today with tech if eacho and every tech company didn't lean on eachother and stand on eachothers shoulders to get there.

Apple borrows from Google. Google borrows from Apple and the whole world keeps on spinning. In the end, everyone has better choices for their technology.
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Precisely. Couldn't agree more.
 
Glideslope said:
75% of all of Google's Mobile Ad Revenue comes from iOS Devices. Wonder how that will be someday? ;)
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I like how some analyst supposing become word of truth when it is needed.

Any source for that claim apart of "an analyst from Goldman has estimated that ..."?

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newagemac said:
And since when has Google and their ragtag group of Android OEMs done something right? After the mess that was Lollipop, I would hate to see what's going to happen to people's treasured photos.
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Yes, Google has not done anything right, how can't be true that.

What mess is Lollipop? Did you suffer any problem with your Lollipop devices?
 
Aragornii said:
So is there any point to using Apple Photos rather than Google Photos? It seems like Google Photos can do everything Apple Photos does and more, and comes with virtually unlimited free cloud storage.
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Just the fact that with apple you know they aren't fingering through your data to pay for the "free" storage.
 
gccumber said:
But is it?! Last I heard Apple stores info in a secure element... Do Android phone have that? This is a major security difference between the two that average consumers would miss... Oh it the same as Apple Pay! Derrrr.
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That's why it's virtually identical and not completely.

thekeyring said:
Exactly. And no Touch ID either. Glad I'm sticking with iPhone. :)

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Precisely. Couldn't agree more.
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My S6 has a finger print sensor and when Samsung Pay comes out I'll be able to use it basically everywhere.

Oletros said:
I like how some analyst supposing become word of truth when it is needed.

Any source for that claim apart of "an analyst from Goldman has estimated that ..."?

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Yes, Google has not done anything right, how can't be true that.

What mess is Lollipop? Did you suffer any problem with your Lollipop devices?
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Well, Lollipop came out of the gate with memory issues. I have poor battery life on my new phone, but that's more of a Samsung issue than Android. I do have to say, though, that M already looks to be more smooth in the UI department than Lollipop.

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Just the fact that with apple you know they aren't fingering through your data to pay for the "free" storage.
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So, basically, no.
 
Michael Goff said:
Well, Lollipop came out of the gate with memory issues. I have poor battery life on my new phone, but that's more of a Samsung issue than Android. I do have to say, though, that M already looks to be more smooth in the UI department than Lollipop.
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Yes, but no new OS release have been free from bugs, nor from Google, nor from Apple, nor from Microsoft.

And having bugs is different from saying that is a total mess like the OP said. And I bet that e has not suffered the memory leak bug :D
 
Rogifan said:
Apple just needs to suck it up on cloud pricing. They are embarrassingly stingy when it comes to cloud storage. And if they're going to continue to sell 16GB devices then they need to offer more and cheaper cloud offerings.
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Nonsense.

Apple's photo storage is dirt cheap for most people. There would be nothing game-changing about unlimited photo storage.

What I would love is unlimited video storage and the ability to stream uploaded DVDs from the cloud plus iTunes Match for video. That would be game-changing. Sadly, I doubt that Apple have the cajoles to offer such things these days.
 
Michael Goff said:
No, I don't think so. Your comment provided zero value to the discussion. It isn't clever, it wasn't warranted. These are meant to be discussions about a topic, not discussions about MacRumors as a site. There's an entire forum for that.

Edit: That being said, of course you're allowed to post whatever you want. Just, you know, be ready for responses to your comment.
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You too))
 
Oletros said:
Yes, but no new OS release have been free from bugs, nor from Google, nor from Apple, nor from Microsoft.

And having bugs is different from saying that is a total mess like the OP said. And I bet that e has not suffered the memory leak bug :D
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Oh, I agree that it wasn't a mess. I doubt he has a device with L on it at all, to be honest.

jackson83 said:
You too))
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Me too what?
 
FSMBP said:
I don't expect Apple to offer unlimited Photo Storage but having 5GBs for your entire device backup+email+photos/videos is greedy of them in 2015. That would have been fine in 2005 but not now. I know they offer paid tiers but their baseline free tier should be improved.
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Seriously. It wouldn't be nearly as PO'ed about it if Apple added 5GB for every i-Device and Macs I've bought in the past few years, which by now I should have at least 50GB (most definitely more). Meanwhile I have a 100GB OneDrive from Microsoft and the only thing I bought from MS is the Surface Pro 3.

Apple really should be embarrassed about this stingy offering.
 
Just to recap.

Google bad. apple good.

Got it. Time for me to move on to the next post.

And why should I worry google is looking through my data? That should concern me why? As if I care.
 
DogHouseDub said:
as long as you don't mind them logging geotags and running facial recognition to pair with the rest of the information they've cobbled together about you.
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You do know they don't exactly have records but profiles. They'll know a 27 year old man with a scraggly beard often looks up doujins. Beyond that, they won't know anything. And that's if said person put their photos on Google Photos.
 
Aragornii said:
No, the person buying the ad space is the customer, and the product they are buying is you, the user.
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No. What they're buying is anonymous data profiles. Heights, weights, search habits, maybe what you look like. But a person is more than just anonymous data.
 
No thank you google. Screw you and your services and that Google+ Profile requirement for everything you try to do on youtube and other services.
 
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