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Re: iPhone Storage Freedom
Reply #25 –
Each person will decide whether and to what extent personal privacy is important to them, but everyone should at least understand the exchange you make with Google for their free services. Be sure to also understand the photo & video resolution limits imposed (not an issue for most). The linked article below is over a year old, so you may need to dig further to find out if anything has changed.

Google Photos may be free — but there's still a cost | iMore
Andrew
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Re: iPhone Storage Freedom
Reply #26 –
Quote from: bearthio  - 
Each person will decide whether and to what extent personal privacy is important to them, but everyone should at least understand the exchange you make with Google for their free services. Be sure to also understand the photo & video resolution limits imposed (not an issue for most). The linked article below is over a year old, so you may need to dig further to find out if anything has changed.

Google Photos may be free — but there's still a cost | iMore


You are, of course, exactly right. Anytime anyone gets something for free, they are the product and not the customer.  :o
No one should ever use the Internet with an expectation of privacy.
With that understanding, I use Google and Apple for lots of things understanding that I'm the product.

Ed
Re: iPhone Storage Freedom
Reply #27 –
So I guess I am in a total minority, then.  But I just don't see the wisdom of not keeping one's own "cloud" at hand, i.e. a known repository for your photos (and any other information you don't want to lose) for which you do not become the product, and for which you need no net connection, nor pay a monthly fee, which is either hard dollars, or your personal information.

   Virtual hugs,

   Judie



Quote from: Ed D.  - 

You are, of course, exactly right. Anytime anyone gets something for free, they are the product and not the customer.  :o
No one should ever use the Internet with an expectation of privacy.
With that understanding, I use Google and Apple for lots of things understanding that I'm the product.

Ed
Re: iPhone Storage Freedom
Reply #28 –
Quote from: Judie Ashford  - 
So I guess I am in a total minority, then.  But I just don't see the wisdom of not keeping one's own "cloud" at hand, i.e. a known repository for your photos (and any other information you don't want to lose) for which you do not become the product, and for which you need no net connection, nor pay a monthly fee, which is either hard dollars, or your personal information.
Yes, we almost definitely are in the minority, Judie. I think others covered it earlier in this thread, but cloud storage (as secure as you can possible find) is something to be used in addition (not a replacement) to "a known repository". Sadly, many of us are not disciplined enough to maintain those "hard" backups regularly. That's why cloud backups are so attractive.
Andrew
2008 Rear Bath
(previously 1999 TK)
Re: iPhone Storage Freedom
Reply #29 –
I keep the important stuff backed up three ways. An external hard drive, Mozy, and a combination of iCloud and Google Drive.
Ed
Re: iPhone Storage Freedom
Reply #30 –
Quote from: Judie Ashford  - 
So I guess I am in a total minority, then.  But I just don't see the wisdom of not keeping one's own "cloud" at hand, i.e. a known repository for your photos (and any other information you don't want to lose) for which you do not become the product, and for which you need no net connection, nor pay a monthly fee, which is either hard dollars, or your personal information.

 Virtual hugs,

 Judie

As a semi-pro photog for years I understand storage issues - either film, slides, or data bits.  I made a small but significant amount of money with my camera.    My images are money -small amount of money and dropping I might add.    But there is a saying in IT if it isn't in three places it doesn't exist.      I have a very large home storage array about 15 terabites in fact.  I have identical storage array at a personal friend's home that sync's daily.  And  I use Amazon Simple Storage as a 'cloud' backup.  Overkill maybe but I have peace of mind no matter come fire, earthquake, or flood my images are safe.   

Apple, Google and to some degree Facebook are relatively honest about the exchange of 'free' service for assorted services they provide.    Google, I know, gives you a place to 'see' all the data.  You can download and delete that data.    I'm still waiting for any level of government, bank, telco (cell or land land), cable company, auto and medical insurance companies to do the same.  BTW they also collect and sell your personal data to the highest bidder.  Been doing it for years before the internet was even a dream. 

I use Google Photos to back up my cell phone photos.  If I take a image  I don't like I can delete it off my phone.  There is an option to delete it off all devices it resides on at the same time.  If I need to for any reason to backup those images I can download them from Google to any of my storage arrays. 



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Re: iPhone Storage Freedom
Reply #31 –
After reading this it's clear that none of us has any online  privacy.
We're all "products" 😱  Like it or not.

Ed

Internet privacy.
Re: iPhone Storage Freedom
Reply #32 –
Well, I guess I am showing my ignorance of how the "cloud" works, then.  I presumed that one had to actually *DO* something to back up data/pictures, but maybe I am wrong about that.  Does it just happen automagically whenever you create something?  I find that backing up my computer nightly, with occasional transfers of my iPhone photos to the MacBook Pro, to be sufficiently simple that it causes me no grief.  It takes about five minutes of time wherein I punch a couple of buttons intermittently, and then it does its thing whilst I slumber.  Once in a while I put some photos onto the iMac, most notably from the card that is in our Critter Cam that captures passersby in the "outback" behind our house.

My photos and other documents are on the iPhone, my MacBook Pro, my iMac, and on three separate 2TB drives, but not in the cloud.  I just went into my husband's office room (ACK!) and there are 18 drives stacked up.  From memory as he bought them, I would say that they are from 1 to 3 terabytes each.  Mind you, we do not have a business, and don't take a LOT of photos.  I have no idea what is on all of them, but they are all in use.  There are also two 750 GB drives somewhere that I use for backing up when we travel.

We don't have offsite storage, and that is probably a mistake.  Having daily back ups at a friend's house would be spectacular!

   Virtual hugs,

   Judie

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Quote from: bearthio  - 
Yes, we almost definitely are in the minority, Judie. I think others covered it earlier in this thread, but cloud storage (as secure as you can possible find) is something to be used in addition (not a replacement) to "a known repository". Sadly, many of us are not disciplined enough to maintain those "hard" backups regularly. That's why cloud backups are so attractive.