Google Photos: "Unlimited" yet again doesn't mean what you think

Skripka said:
The "unlimited" option for photo uploading on Google is apparently not "unlimited" according to what the Oxford English Dictionary teaches us:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...visible-data-cap-for-unlimited-photo-uploads/
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For those who don't bother reading the article...

It doesn't appear to a cap on the amount of photos. It looks like there may be a soft cap on how much data you can push in a certain amount of time.

And if anybody wants to play semantics Google said "unlimited storage" not unlimited bandwidth to upload 3TB of photos in a single night. ;)
 
Vermillion said:
For those who don't bother reading the article...

It doesn't appear to a cap on the amount of photos. It looks like there may be a soft cap on how much data you can push in a certain amount of time.

And if anybody wants to play semantics Google said "unlimited storage" not unlimited bandwidth to upload 3TB of photos in a single night. ;)
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True ;)

IIRC, Google caps Drive throughput usage to like 750MB to 1GB allotted per day for free accounts.
 
Skripka said:
True ;)

IIRC, Google caps Drive throughput usage to like 750MB to 1GB allotted per day for free accounts.
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The issue here isn't the soft cap for bandwidth. It's that Google didn't warn anybody if this is meant to be there and not just a bug. They did merge a few services into Photos and some of those services did use soft cap uploads like this so we could be seeing a bug that affects some people.

My big question is how the hell do people have enough photos to even hit these soft caps? There are reports of people uploading over 110K photos in a night. Why? Do you really need all 110K photos?
 
Vermillion said:
The issue here isn't the soft cap for bandwidth. It's that Google didn't warn anybody if this is meant to be there and not just a bug. They did merge a few services into Photos and some of those services did use soft cap uploads like this so we could be seeing a bug that affects some people.

My big question is how the hell do people have enough photos to even hit these soft caps? There are reports of people uploading over 110K photos in a night. Why? Do you really need all 110K photos?
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A typical smartphone has a what? 12-16megapixel shooter? Translates into what 3-5Megabyte per photo in jpeg? The Photos app for example (And G+ photos before it) auto-synced all the images in my /Camera folder on my Nexus. Setup Photos/Drive on a desktop to sync on a desktop will probably do the same.

5 megabyte files only takes 200 photos to hit the daily datacap for Drive. I shot 300 images on my last vacation (a week long), and I wasn't going too nuts either.

People uploading 100K photos...are probably doing the smart thing-backing everything up to an offsite provider and not being choosy. Call a service unlimited, and have an uptime record like Google tends to have and people will do it...especially if it is free.
 
I've got a few hundred Gigabytes of photos and I consider myself a moderate photo collector. I've seen pros with collections in the Terabytes. Though I wouldn't trust any online service with them of course. For the typical person though I can see how those services could be attractive.
 
Skripka said:
A typical smartphone has a what? 12-16megapixel shooter? Translates into what 3-5Megabyte per photo in jpeg? The Photos app for example (And G+ photos before it) auto-synced all the images in my /Camera folder on my Nexus. Setup Photos/Drive on a desktop to sync on a desktop will probably do the same.

5 megabyte files only takes 200 photos to hit the daily datacap for Drive. I shot 300 images on my last vacation (a week long), and I wasn't going too nuts either.

People uploading 100K photos...are probably doing the smart thing-backing everything up to an offsite provider and not being choosy. Call a service unlimited, and have an uptime record like Google tends to have and people will do it...especially if it is free.
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Shooting 300 photos is one thing. Keeping all 300 is another to me. I guess I'm weird. If I shoot 300 photos while on vacation I go back and toss all the ones I don't want or didn't come out great.
 
I just wish I could sort the photos on my phone. Google photos doesn't seem to think I should need or want to. I have everything grouped into folders and even named according to the date they were taken...and Google Photos just ignores most of it.
 
Domingo said:
I just wish I could sort the photos on my phone. Google photos doesn't seem to think I should need or want to. I have everything grouped into folders and even named according to the date they were taken...and Google Photos just ignores most of it.
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Amazon cloud photos organizes them by date taken.
 
And according to Google this is no longer even an issue. :)

The update is on the original article posted in the OP.
 
Google Photos is great, they do need to let you edit titles, photo dates for sure but other than that I am happy.
 
Skripka said:
The "unlimited" option for photo uploading on Google is apparently not "unlimited" according to what the Oxford English Dictionary teaches us:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...visible-data-cap-for-unlimited-photo-uploads/
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Vermillion said:
For those who don't bother reading the article...

It doesn't appear to a cap on the amount of photos. It looks like there may be a soft cap on how much data you can push in a certain amount of time.

And if anybody wants to play semantics Google said "unlimited storage" not unlimited bandwidth to upload 3TB of photos in a single night. ;)
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Yet again, a thread with a linkbait title that just links and does not summarize or explain the point of the thread, so you know whether you want to waste your time or not.

Thank you Vermillion, for doing what the OP did not.
 
Because I don't use Android, this only affects my usage of Google+.

So far I dislike photos. I definitely prefer G+ implementation versus photos. Hopefully it will change to a more user manageable model.

In G+ I can create albums and titles and organize like crazy. I feel like I can't in photos. It's a step back. Everything is just chronological. It ignores albums. Maybe I'm missing something. I switch back to G+ every time, almost instantly.
 
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