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PhotoStream is awesome!!!
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I agree...really loving photo stream too. I had a slight hiccup this evening but a restart of the mb pro fixed the issue. Took a bunch of pics at Ikea last night and they were in iPhoto by the time I turned it on. That's some convenience. 
That's too bad. My iMac is still running Snow Leopard because I'm using quicken. That's also the main household computer that stores all the photos on iPhoto.
The lack of any control of what photos get streamed leads to a lot of work cleaning the good from the bad on all devices instead of just one.
Should be able to flag good photos on any device and then see that in the stream so you can quickly copy the ones you want.
Also would be useful to be able to delete specific photos from the stream that you know you will never use.
It's a unusual concept of cloud storage not quite sure of it yet...
Should be able to flag good photos on any device and then see that in the stream so you can quickly copy the ones you want.
Also would be useful to be able to delete specific photos from the stream that you know you will never use.
It's a unusual concept of cloud storage not quite sure of it yet...
It was free to upgrade on my 2011 MBA. It doesn't automatically update to the latest version of iPhoto when you upgrade to 10.7.2.
Free on PC, have to pay on Mac?
As you already know, Photostream works only on iPhoto '11, and you have to pay for an upgrade from iPhoto '09 to '11. Only Macs which were launched recently (ie, after the launch of new iPhoto with the Photostream feature) will have that feature from out of the box. Upgrading to Lion does not include iPhoto '11.
It's OK. I think Photostream is really cool, and that feature alone deserves more than the money for the entire upgrade to iPhoto '11.
What bothers me is that it is absolutely FREE on PCs. Apple Software Update on my Windows PC noticed me that I can download the iCloud control panel, so I installed it, and activated Photostream. It worked seamless.
However, on my MBP (mid 2010), Photostream checkbox in the iCloud preferences pane is deactivated with a "Learn more" button on the right of it, which leads me to a message that I need to buy iPhoto '11 to enjoy Photostream. There is no other way I can access my Photostream on my MBP as far as I know.
Yes, I know that iPhoto is Apple's proprietary software and in principle they can do whatever they want with it. However, I can hardly believe that "Apple put Windows users in advance of Mac users" as to Photostream. There might be other reasons I don't know, but I cannot help feeling .. uh.. betrayed? fooled? by Apple. I'm really disappointed.
What makes me even more perplexed is that there seems to be almost no complain about this upgrade policy. Am I missing something here?
I would like to hear what other people think about this.
As you already know, Photostream works only on iPhoto '11, and you have to pay for an upgrade from iPhoto '09 to '11. Only Macs which were launched recently (ie, after the launch of new iPhoto with the Photostream feature) will have that feature from out of the box. Upgrading to Lion does not include iPhoto '11.
It's OK. I think Photostream is really cool, and that feature alone deserves more than the money for the entire upgrade to iPhoto '11.
What bothers me is that it is absolutely FREE on PCs. Apple Software Update on my Windows PC noticed me that I can download the iCloud control panel, so I installed it, and activated Photostream. It worked seamless.
However, on my MBP (mid 2010), Photostream checkbox in the iCloud preferences pane is deactivated with a "Learn more" button on the right of it, which leads me to a message that I need to buy iPhoto '11 to enjoy Photostream. There is no other way I can access my Photostream on my MBP as far as I know.
Yes, I know that iPhoto is Apple's proprietary software and in principle they can do whatever they want with it. However, I can hardly believe that "Apple put Windows users in advance of Mac users" as to Photostream. There might be other reasons I don't know, but I cannot help feeling .. uh.. betrayed? fooled? by Apple. I'm really disappointed.
What makes me even more perplexed is that there seems to be almost no complain about this upgrade policy. Am I missing something here?
I would like to hear what other people think about this.