Exactly. But seeing a friend lose everything in a house fire, I like cloud options to back up my backups. And print out some pictures, too, just in case AI reaches sentience and gets petty!And the award for most ironic name goes to...
Never forget guys, "cloud" is just a fancy way of saying "somebody else's computer"
Are there any good "name brand" alternatives to iCloud Photos?
Google Photos is no good; they don't provide an automatic way to keep a synced local copy of your data. (They used to, but turned it off for some reason.)
I just wonder what the alternatives are these days. So far iCloud Photos is great but we never know if that may change in the future, like Google Photos did.
It's becoming increasingly more difficult for smaller players to establish operations and survive. Shutdowns like this are an overall net negative for the industry — they handover more power to incumbents, users become more hesitant and resistant to try new options, and as a result, incumbents move slower and fail to innovate.
This, in and of itself, is what I find most problematic about our current tech landscape, and it's a vicious cycle — a cycle that hands power to incumbents and makes it nearly impossible for startups / new companies to survive:
/rant
- Fragmentation in market breeds new market entrants promising 'seamless' user experiences;
- this in turn causes companies to onboard more users with undefined business models trying to reach profitability / sustainability;
- most of these companies are unable to reach true product-market-fit and therefore a reliable business model;
- eventually, companies are forced to shutdown;
- incumbents gain more power and do not innovate as quickly as the market demands.
- Repeat steps 1-6.
It should be illegal to only provide 7 days to access to your data before shutting down the service. That’s crazy.
That's a good point. I feel like capitalism is kind of an outdated model when trying to apply it to modern society. Hundreds of years ago businesses were much smaller by comparison, especially at the local level. You didn't need worldwide infrastructure and manpower. A company failed if it wasn't good, not because it couldn't scale or faced roadblocks at every point due to massive conglomerates blocking them. When you're talking about companies that are getting large enough to not even just buy countries but entire blocks of countries, how do you compete against that? The odds are heavily stacked against you from day one. That's not capitalism any more—it's something much worse.It's becoming increasingly more difficult for smaller players to establish operations and survive. Shutdowns like this are an overall net negative for the industry — they handover more power to incumbents, users become more hesitant and resistant to try new options, and as a result, incumbents move slower and fail to innovate.
This, in and of itself, is what I find most problematic about our current tech landscape, and it's a vicious cycle — a cycle that hands power to incumbents and makes it nearly impossible for startups / new companies to survive:
/rant
- Fragmentation in market breeds new market entrants promising 'seamless' user experiences;
- this in turn causes companies to onboard more users with undefined business models trying to reach profitability / sustainability;
- most of these companies are unable to reach true product-market-fit and therefore a reliable business model;
- eventually, companies are forced to shutdown;
- incumbents gain more power and do not innovate as quickly as the market demands.
- Repeat steps 1-6.
It's becoming increasingly more difficult for smaller players to establish operations and survive. Shutdowns like this are an overall net negative for the industry — they handover more power to incumbents, users become more hesitant and resistant to try new options, and as a result, incumbents move slower and fail to innovate.
Whats crazy is people only having their data on a 3rd parties drives somewhere else.It should be illegal to only provide 7 days to access to your data before shutting down the service. That’s crazy.
Exactly. Your data, your responsibility. It is just too bad that there are TONS of people around using those so-called “2TB/5TB” online storage and that storage only, thinking that is fairly safe. I even saw people arguing the “maintenance cost” between personally storing data and storing data in the cloud. They must have never seen those small cloud storage providers shut down I think.The lesson here is that the only truly safe way to store precious irreplaceable memories, digital or not, is to store them yourself.
It should be illegal to only provide 7 days to access to your data before shutting down the service. That’s crazy.
I still use a 2TB (huge at the time) Airport TimeCapsule both as my router and Time Machine back up. They were expensive, but looking back maybe not so much because they do work.Well, Apple's Time Machine was actually a good backup, it was easy too. Your only initial investment was to buy a good-sized and reliable external HD. That external drive was essentially "your own cloud server".
It used to be that Apple even sold multi-terrabyte Airport routers with built-in Time Machine backup, but no longer. So who knows if Apple is no longer interested in pushing Time Machine technology. We certainly have not heard anything new or any new development on it.
I still use a 2TB (huge at the time) Airport TimeCapsule both as my router and Time Machine back up. They were expensive, but looking back maybe not so much because they do work.
A decade later mine still works (used it to transfer the latest backup to a new iMac), the connection never drops even with tons of phones, laptops, AppleTVs, gadgets and PCs of the people in the house connected to it.
I even got a bit of a faster router but it’s less reliable, don’t need the faster WiFi anyways for my current internet connection.
Would have been great if Apple continued pushing forward this product with new faster better internals and updated WiFi connectivity because for what it’s meant to do, it has done it perfectly well for years and years personally.
Maybe this is something that can be put and blamed on a Cook v. Jobs rant?
LOL’d at this!so I bought a smart plug for it.....but guess what!? That needs WiFi to work!