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What is point of photo stream?

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bhigh8

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Sep 23, 2012
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It takes up a bunch of space on phone and I haven't really understood it from the beginning. I used to click on a bunch of pics and share with my wife but they would sometime take a day to get to her. I can just email or text faster. What does it do and what is it used for. It seems to just duplicate every pic I take and use space.

Would love to understand better.
 
It's a way to automatically sync pictures you take with other Mac and iOS devices that you own.

I don't have to plug my iphone into my Mac ever, but every photo I take on it will be in my Aperture library on my Mac.
 
aristobrat said:
It's a way to automatically sync pictures you take with other Mac and iOS devices that you own.

I don't have to plug my iphone into my Mac ever, but every photo I take on it will be in my Aperture library on my Mac.
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Okay. So what is actually syncing to my PC? Camera roll or photo stream. I sometimes delete from photo stream to save space so I have 1300 in camera roll and 900 in photo stream. I notice some auto sync and my wife's phone only synce when she plugs into laptop.
 
I love Photostream. Every now and then I open iPhoto and save all my recent photos taken with my iPhone. I don't need to connect it to my Mac or send them manually.

If I'm on a trip and take 500+ photos, when I get home they're already on my iPhoto library waiting for me to work with them. (As long as you have WiFi on your phone that is).
 
dasx said:
I love Photostream. Every now and then I open iPhoto and save all my recent photos taken with my iPhone. I don't need to connect it to my Mac or send them manually.

If I'm on a trip and take 500+ photos, when I get home they're already on my iPhoto library waiting for me to work with them. (As long as you have WiFi on your phone that is).
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can you use iPhoto with any pc? i noticed everyone that has it, has a mac.
 
In its current state, my wife and I use it to update and manage our screen-savers. we both subscribe to the same "sub-stream" titled "screen-saver" and upload to that to update and manage the screen-savers on our apple-tv and mac-mini.

I think the problem here is that you don't have a mac? It's all subjective, but I feel the problem with a lot of apple products is that the consumer isn't using all apple products. It makes a difference.
 
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