If nothing else, this makes Flickr an excellent backup service for photos, and there are a wide range of iOS applications enabling a Flickr library to become your iOS devices’ cloud photo storage solution as well. One of Flickr’s original selling points remains its biggest advantage today for the serious photographer with a large library: for the price of an iTunes Match subscription-$25/year-users get unlimited uploading and storage for their photos, including full access to the original files.
Even though parent company Yahoo has lost much of its former glory, Flickr remains the 800-pound gorilla in the photo storage and sharing space. Additional problems are created when you consider that downscaled and edited versions wind up scattered between devices, creating multiple variations that may or may not make it back into your master library.įlickr is capable of stepping in to fill some of these gaps. As of now, Apple treats iOS devices as capable of viewing, displaying, and sharing small numbers of specifically-selected photos, which are generally picked from only several supported Windows/Mac management apps, then downsized during synchronization. Instead, this year saw only a modest improvement with the addition of Shared Photo Streams, which will add some value for users who want to quickly and easily share photos stored on their IOS devices, but doesn’t address what happens to their larger, archived photo libraries. We hoped that WWDC would usher in a rethought Apple photo storage solution that would more effectively place a user’s entire photo library “in the cloud ” last year’s introduction of Photo Stream was a baby step in this direction, but lacked any kind of organization or long-term storage.
0 kommentar(er)
