This one hits close to home. Though releasing a 16 GB base model makes this “Storage Full” message much more likely, this message is always a possibility in any scenario, unless your photos live in the cloud and you can guarantee constant internet access and unlimited cloud storage.
Stinging commercial for iOS Google Photos app
This is an issue for someone like me who shoots with 20+ megapixel cameras. My RAID on my desk at work has 10TB of photos. My home computer has 2-3 TB. I’m not paying Apple to store my photos. Their prices are not reasonable. Amazon promises unlimited space with Prime. Yeah, for how long? Same with Google.
With all the online services in the past aimed at pro photographers, which are long on promises and short on protection – or adequate notification that they are going off-line – over and over the stories tell of photographers being locked out of their photos from cloud services and stock agencies.
The only solution is being your own cloud, and feeding smaller copies to your iCloud or other services. If someone could come up with a good solution like that, I’d be all over it. Until then, I’m rolling my own. I do not trust Google or Amazon.
I have received it on my 128GB phone, it happens. Love the commercial. I beg everyone I know to use the free Google Photos service as one form of backup.
It is such a great service and the search and assistant features are beyond impressive.
You could go down the path of BitTorrent Sync, so copying over the cloud to your own storage. If I was unhappy with iCloud/Dropbox/Flickr then that would be the method I would look at.
Being your own cloud is not the only solution. Serious photographers pay what it takes for cloud storage. But you don’t rely on the cloud for active work. That’s just sloppy workflow. Don’t blame services for being “long on promises and short on protection.” Learn how to do it right.
I seriously don’t understand how this is an issue for anyone anymore. Use iCloud Photo Library and turn on Optimize iPhone storage and you will never run out of space from photos.
I find requiring cloud support be off to film a sting far more damning to Google, the cloud company.
It’s not like you don’t get a warning about the storage almost being full. If you ignore that message then it’s your fault. If you keep getting that message then you got a phone that’s too small for you storage wise.
So, back in the days of film cameras, did people regularly get mad that they had used up the whole roll of film and curse at the limited capacity of the film strip, or did they just understand that you could only capture a limited number of photos before having to unload them to make room for the new photos?
Like I said, don’t trust cloud services. Anyone who does is asking for trouble. My workflow is just fine with AppleScript, Filemaker, Portfolio, Artesia Teams, and good organization.
Funny, funny.
But once you sign up to the app don’t you lose all control of your photos? Aren’t there stories about google holding onto your photos even if you delete the app?
I think I’d rather have my 16gb iPhone and back up locally.
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I attended a wedding in the previous decade at which my cousin’s husband asked me to look at his sullen teenage daughter’s iPhone, which he claimed wasn’t working well.
She’d loaded it up with purchased music and videos, probably hadn’t ever backed it up to iTunes, and didn’t seem to want to understand that she’d need to remove some stuff to clear storage space. I suspect their eventual solution was to replace the phone.
I have a strong feeling this wasn’t an isolated use-case.
Yes, to both. 🙂
A commercial from Google that’s genuinely funny and on-point? Wow.
I think Apple should follow this up by having these very same people being warned that their storage is getting low, only to have this eventual message pop up. Then the last one in the advert saying “God I’m an idiot”.
Of course they won’t, but it’s fun to think about. : )
Sure, but there’ll be way fewer people who have the patience to acknowledge that an issue is slightly more complex than initially suggested.