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Other Backup photos and videos is much easier with Android
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What is the current process on Android?
All my photos are backed up to iCloud which syncs to all my devices. I then have a local backup of my Mac.
Yup. And it takes just minutes to transfer from the phone to the ixpand.
Google Photos has an iOS app.
Google One also has an iOS app.
Dropbox has both an Android app and an iOS app and it works the same on both Android and iPhone.
So…you are either looking to pick a fight or are unaware that you can use alternatives…or just don't care about alternatives.
Either way, not really a good look.
Google Photos is free.
Dropbox has a free tier and it's 2GB. Plus since 2011 when I started with them they have a tendency to give away GBs. I have 12GB of free Dropbox space.
How is that spending extra money?
Google One does cost me $1.99 a month, but I started that on Android and that gets me 100GB of storage. I could easily drop it and the free offering would be around what iCloud offers for free.
I don't pay for iCloud storage either. I use the free offering and everything else I have on my phone is managed in other ways.
That’s rather a silly statement.
You get what you pay for.
I pay for multiple services for my backups - including a 12 bay NAS which is also backed up to Rackspace.
My entire digital life is backed up so I can restore it from the smallest to the worst calamity (aside from all out countrywide destruction).
I value my data. I pay for my backups as a result.
And when the USB drive goes bad, then what? And you have to remember to keep doing that. What if you take a picture then drop the phone before getting it backed up to the USB drive?
Sounds very much like a 2010’s type solution.
Google photos with original quality is not free, even the limited size is not free very soon. Something like 15gb is not closed to enough.
I had an Android for a year (Pixel 3a XL). Still have it, just using a different phone now. I think I got the device to mount once via USB. But most of my computers are Macs so maybe that was the problem, IDK.
USB backup just isn't really relevant to me. Dropbox auto uploads my photos. If any harddrive on a computer I have using Dropbox fails, the photos are still in Dropbox.
The bad thing about about iphone is Apple intentionally makes it super easy to backup with icloud or imac so people pay much more, while so hard to backup with Windows.
Then you might re-think about how you're doing backups.
I don't use Google Photos for photos. I just brought it up because you mentioned Android. I use Dropbox. And since that puts my photos directly on three or four different computers without any interaction from me, when my automatic computer backups go off they get backed up. Periodically, I clean out the Camera Uploads folder and the process repeats.
I'm not storing every photo I've ever taken on my phone(s) in one place.
Its so freaking useful. The old models were rubbish. But the new ones are really good. And very easy to use and access.
Rubbish. You mean to tell me that after paying $800 or more for an iPhone, $0.99 a month for 50GB iCloud is too expensive?
Apple always changes and makes another photo format or how photos are stored in phone. Then existing usb drive like this would become rubbish and you need to buy new version again.
Its all about the ecosystem… i have a USD$2447 Surface Pro 7 which i just bought and i dont mind being not able to backup my photos/videos to my SP7. Id rather use the iXpand. I get your point,the iPhone is already expensive and people must spend more just to “backup”. But im pretty sure the iXpand is a way cheaper solution.
I dont take really a lot of photos and just 1080 no 2k no 4k of videos, still have around 150gb. And icoud cannot backup your photos with camera or your family member android photos or videos.
Let me ask you a question. In the last 10 years of the iPhone. How many times did Apple change the format or how photos are stored in the iPhone?
as long as the photo is in the iXpand,you can always convert it to “newer” formats.
As I said in another reply, ixpand can suddenly become trash once apple creates new photo format or change the way how photos are saved in iphone. Apple always makes sure imac and icloud are easy ways. Even imac may not be easy except having very big internal ssd storage imac which is so expensive.
Sorry to stop you there but i think you should just get an Android. From what youre saying perhaps there are more people using Android phones in your family? In my family 9/10 uses iPhone. Only my brother uses an Android.
iXpand is Apple certified. Im sure it wouldnt “suddenly” be trash… iXpand is made by SanDisk a.k.a Western Digital(Now at least). Its an American brand. Im not an American but i am pretty sure Apple wouldnt do WD dirty.
by the way iXpand is not cheap at all, much more expensive than normal usb drive.