Why is iCloud Photo Library so bad?

[Alonso Quijano]

Google don't scan any data at all (including emails) from paid google apps accounts

"No Expectation of Privacy If You Use Gmail, Google Says"

"Paid Google Apps users (who have @theirowndomain.com email addresses, or email addresses provided by partnerships with their educational institution or Internet service provider) also have their email scanned for data-gathering purposes."

 

[Phil A.]

"No Expectation of Privacy If You Use Gmail, Google Says"

"Paid Google Apps users (who have @theirowndomain.com email addresses, or email addresses provided by partnerships with their educational institution or Internet service provider) also have their email scanned for data-gathering purposes."

Google's current privacy policy states

We do not scan for advertising purposes in Gmail or other Google Apps services. Google does not collect or use data in Google Apps services for advertising purposes.

 

[Alonso Quijano]

Google's current privacy policy states

I'm glad you're so trusting of privacy policies. How does Google make money then if not through the monitization of their services? Surely they don't make it all in Nexus sales.

 

[Phil A.]

I'm glad you're so trusting of privacy policies. How does Google make money then if not through the monitization of their services? Surely they don't make it all in Nexus sales.

In this case, they make it from people paying for the service (which is why they don't need to monetise the users).

I do trust Google to honour their license and privacy policies as for them to do otherwise would be commercial suicide - Google apps is used by some very big companies (and government departments) and it's simply not worth it for Google to be dishonest to these people...

 

[Max(IT)]

Google don't scan any data at all (including emails) from paid google apps accounts

do you really believe in what you wrote ?
Amazing how naive one could be ...

Google's current privacy policy states

that's BS.
Google was found guilty of data mining in several occasions, despite their BS on the privacy policy.
DATA MINING is their business .
Nothing else.

In this case, they make it from people paying for the service (which is why they don't need to monetise the users).

I do trust Google to honour their license and privacy policies as for them to do otherwise would be commercial suicide - Google apps is used by some very big companies (and government departments) and it's simply not worth it for Google to be dishonest to these people...

As said before, Google was found guilty several times.
I don't know how you could trust them
I use some of their services, like Gmail, but Im aware they are scanning my data and nothing really important is going through Google's Apps.
Really, Im shocked about some people trusting Google on this forum.

 

[Nikhil72]

I have 3500 photos on iCloud and they sync beautifully across all my devices the moment I'm on wifi, including an iMac, MacBook, iPad, and my iPhone. When I picked up my 6s plus, I set up as new, enabled iCloud photos, and it immediately had my entire library available. Not sure what's different for other people in the setup.

 

[Armen]

And do you consider a good idea to relay on Google for your personal photos? O my...
iCloud works flawlessly for me. Just bought a new MacBook Pro and my photos are all here.

I try to avoid many as I can...

totally true.
Google 's main activity is data mining. They offer those shiny free apps for your data.

Upon further investigation I've decided to keep only local external hard drive backups of my pictures.

iCloud Drive still sucks. I'm baffled as to why Apple didnt add a system level share sheet for "copy to iCloudDrive". They have useless ones for Facebook and Flickr but not their own storage? 🙄

 

[stanw]

Interesting, I just switched from Android and I used MS OneDrive to upload all of my photos/videos to the cloud over cellular and it was all uploaded instantly.

Got the 6S+ and there is a massive delay with my photos/videos being uploaded to OneDrive. It is really, really frustrating, though after reading this thread I'm wondering if it is an issue with iOS since others are complaining about speeds to upload to iCloud with videos....