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MacRumors Giveaway: Win a Lightning MicroSD Card Reader and 64GB MicroSD Card from Lexar

jtuk said:
Using clouds is not only expensive but painfully slow. I tend to have my iPhone memory full and it''s a pain having to take hours of your time uploading. With SD cards you can move 1000 photos in fraction of the time. Ideally iPhone and I pad should come with SD crd slot like the Samsung. A cloud is a lovely idea but a pain in practice.
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FWIW, I don't find using iCloud Photo Library to be the least bit slow, and I've certainly never had to "take hours of my time uploading" (I'm a little mystified and curious as to what that might mean), I take photos, and they upload automatically, within seconds, to iCloud. Currently Photos is using 8.2 GB on my iPhone, and that gives me immediate access to the roughly 48,000 photos and 800 videos in my library.

The only time I have a problem is once in a while (not every time) when I take a picture on my iPhone and immediately want to edit it on my iPad, the photo hasn't sync'd up to iCloud and back down to the iPad yet. Often times this works, once in a while it doesn't. And in that case, it's a bit maddening that Photos doesn't have any way to say, "no, really, sync now - try again." On a couple of occasions I've simply exported the image to Dropbox and then imported on the other device, but I shouldn't have to resort to this. But 99% of the time, everything works exactly as it's supposed to, and I'm happy that now I can have remote access to my entire photo library, rather than picking some albums to sync via iTunes to my phone and invariably not having the photo I want. I find the cloud quite lovely in practice.

Given that Apple has clearly gone in the cloud direction, I think the chances of seeing SD/MicroSD card slots on the iPhone and iPad are vanishingly small. And I think this Lexar card reader is an excellent path to such a slot for those who really need, or want, one.
 
These adaptors were available on the China black market but a mfI version took ages. There were a couple with built-in memory but none with micro-sd. I assumed it was a license issue - that it wasn't allowed.
 
CarlJ said:
FWIW, I don't find using iCloud Photo Library to be the least bit slow, and I've certainly never had to "take hours of my time uploading" (I'm a little mystified and curious as to what that might mean), I take photos, and they upload automatically, within seconds, to iCloud. Currently Photos is using 8.2 GB on my iPhone, and that gives me immediate access to the roughly 48,000 photos and 800 videos in my library.

The only time I have a problem is once in a while (not every time) when I take a picture on my iPhone and immediately want to edit it on my iPad, the photo hasn't sync'd up to iCloud and back down to the iPad yet. Often times this works, once in a while it doesn't. And in that case, it's a bit maddening that Photos doesn't have any way to say, "no, really, sync now - try again." On a couple of occasions I've simply exported the image to Dropbox and then imported on the other device, but I shouldn't have to resort to this. But 99% of the time, everything works exactly as it's supposed to, and I'm happy that now I can have remote access to my entire photo library, rather than picking some albums to sync via iTunes to my phone and invariably not having the photo I want. I find the cloud quite lovely in practice.

Given that Apple has clearly gone in the cloud direction, I think the chances of seeing SD/MicroSD card slots on the iPhone and iPad are vanishingly small. And I think this Lexar card reader is an excellent path to such a slot for those who really need, or want, one.
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You only get 5gb with iCloud. I have 1tb on onedrive but sync only happens when opening the app so not automatic thus slow when moving hundreds of photos in one go. With sd card all moved in a minute. I have used Hootoo TripMate which moves files to external drive quickly but it takes setting up and not always convenient.
 
jtuk said:
You only get 5gb with iCloud. I have 1tb on onedrive but sync only happens when opening the app so not automatic thus slow when moving hundreds of photos in one go. With sd card all moved in a minute. I have used Hootoo TripMate which moves files to external drive quickly but it takes setting up and not always convenient.
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You only get 5GB with OneDrive, unless you pay for an Office 365 subscription (which is not a bad deal). I pay Apple $2.99/mo for 200GB of iCloud storage, which covers my all my photos and multiple device backups quite well, and find it quite worthwhile. But I can certainly see how not having automatic upload would make it painful.
 
Anyone with one or similar (photofast do same one much cheaper), help please.

Can I remove my microSD from my Panasonic TZ which the video is in AVCHD, and just copy the folder of files to the iPhone/iPad as is for storing?

The folder and file structure is strange, with *.mts files etc. What I'd want to do is even though the iPhone/iPad may not read them, even with the included app, just for a safe backup while away.

Thanks
 
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I have a WD MyPassport wireless that holds 2TB on an external drive. You can connect via USB3 to copy from your Mac, then eject it and wifi turns on and you can access the files from your iDevice wirelessly. Sounds great. But you are limited to their app, it is very inconsistent and extremely slow if you have a full drive. Streaming is hit or miss, and prone to quitting part way through. Great concept, poor execution. Hopefully this is better.
 
Expensive? Why spend money? I don't at all.

I already stated above that I use the Windows OneDrive App to avoid the now and again hiccups with Apple's iCloud (few and far between, but I'm just done). This way I don't end up having to deal with space issues, etc, on any device. Uploading done. Then once I get to my laptop, obviously I transfer everything to separate folders (I categorize everything, it's just what I do) and a removable drive (cause backup is what you do). Then I don't have to worry about anything staying on the OneDrive.

Apple and Windows both charge for I believe over 5 GB now. I'm not paying anyone for anything if I don't have to. Seriously, we pay them enough already. LOL! It's not a lot of work. You click around on Facebook more than you would doing this.

I still don't understand why people are talking about spending money on anything. Also, if you're worried you won't have access to your PC anytime soon, just set up remote access from your device.
 
Still bombing. That does sound like a cool idea though: skipping the USB connector.

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