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Google Photos vs iCloud Photo: the best?
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It's not about tags and locations. Those are easy. Google Photos' search capability is far better. Can you search for 'Ocean' or 'shoes' or 'swimming' in IPL? Nope. That's one of the things which makes Google photos so amazing.
Eh not as important as who's in my photos. Or where they where taken. What do you use the ability to search for what's in the background for? Seriously I've not found a reason to so I'm curios?
And I'd search based on where things happened so you may say ocean I may say Pier and we'll both get to the pier on the ocean but mine is a bit more specific anyway...
Granted it appears it's coming to ipl now too so...
Not sure what you mean. In ipl you can't currently search for something like 'pier' unless you tagged the photo with that word. In GP you can.
If you want to have uncompressed quality you must pay in both services actually. So this is not an argument.
The main argument is PRIVACY.
Google Photos are better if you don't value privacy and want your photos analyzed by Google AI bots of all kinds.
With iCloud Photo Library you have this guarantee this that whenever Apple introduces some new features, for example, Live Photos it will be compatible with it whereas Google Photos may adopt it or may not.
I have not used google photo so I cannot speak for that. I was a user for iCloud photo, and there are some photo I upload that cannot be deleted even by Apple 2nd tier support. They end up request a total wipe of my iCloud account to backend support, which will happen between the time frame of last week to eternity (i.e. they don't know when that wipe will happen). While Apple might respect your privacy, their technical shortcoming might prevent them from giving you the total control of the photo you uploaded.
Saying that to use a Google product one must not value privacy, which is basically what you're saying, is a bit of a stretch. Google is not sharing your photos. Is Apple's approach more private? Yes. But if you trust Google with your email or anything else, than there is no reason not to trust them with your photos. If you already don't trust them, you're clearly not going to trust them with your photos.
Wait what? Haven't you seen the WWDC? There is intelligent scene detection.
Ocean? Here you go:
Shoes? Here you go:
Swimming? Here you go:
And it even works in Polish.
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Actully, you can. See above.
And it works offline whereas with Google Photos you need to upload it to Google servers first.
So Google's solution is bandwidth and time consuming.
Welcome to the conversation, which started BEFORE the WWDC announcement, and is clearly discussing iOS 9, since iOS 10 isn't officially released yet.
We have yet to see how Google Photos compares with iOS 10's new Photos app features. We also have yet to see if Google Photos will evolve more quickly, or not, as compared to Photos in iOS 10. It's nothing but speculation at this point.
Let's also keep in mind all the other features of Google Photos, previously discussed in this thread, that the current version of iOS 10 Photos still does not have.
We have yet to see how Google Photos compares with iOS 10's new Photos app features. We also have yet to see if Google Photos will evolve more quickly, or not, as compared to Photos in iOS 10. It's nothing but speculation at this point.
Let's also keep in mind all the other features of Google Photos, previously discussed in this thread, that the current version of iOS 10 Photos still does not have.
Who know what will finally be released, but read this is a MacRumors article: "When using the new Photos features, each device with a photo library will need to scan images independently -- there is no iCloud link yet."
If that true, and one has a large photo library, that's a terrible limitation. I really hope Apple addresses that before iOS 10 goes live.
If that true, and one has a large photo library, that's a terrible limitation. I really hope Apple addresses that before iOS 10 goes live.