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Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management

Say hello to Google’s new pricing tiers for Google Photos. We take more photos now than ever before. Growth in this already astronomical segment is explosive, with over 1.4 trillion photos taken last year, according to InfoTrends. That’s up from 1 trillion in 2017. Video is much the same, with YouTube saying in recent years that […]

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Bummed about new Google Photos storage limits? Amazon Photos says “hi”

Enlarge / Amazon Photos offers a desktop PC app, seen here, as well as mobile and browser-based apps. (credit: Jim Salter) In November 2020, Google killed off its long-standing offer of free, unlimited high-resolution photo storage to anyone with a Gmail account. The new restrictions on Google Photos make a lesser-known competitor, Amazon Photos, suddenly of […]

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Google Photos is Your Newest”Infinite” Strategy to impose Tough Constraints

Expand / Google is no more supplying unlimited photo storageexcept for Pixel users, that’s. (charge: Google) Now, Google Photos VP Shimrit Ben-Yair declared the Conclusion of Google Photos’ endless photo storage coverage. The program previously came with important caveats–infinite storage has been to the grade Google deems”High Quality,” that contains compressed media just, capped at […]