Excellent. The big unsolved problems with photos are the following four:
- Picasa doesn't accomodate the workflow of two parents who might both want to add/edit an album containing their child's baby pictures, each using their own google account + picasa on their own laptop. iPhoto / MobileMe doesn't even come close.
- iPhoto doesn't allow for two people to collaborate on an album, each as first class citizens, and insists upon its own file storage approach which means that you can't keep two machines in sync easily.
- No cloud system that I'm aware of will let me conveniently manage a library larger than my hard drive. Why not let me specify how much hard drive space I want to allocate to a picture cache and let the pics actually live on the cloud?
I think that what's needed is a standard for filesystem-based storage/editing that addresses revisions, undo, etc., so that a library may be synced between two computers and all of that state is shared. I want to be able to undo a crop that someone else made, for example.
And, of course, the cloud needs to just work seamlessly with it all.
- Not sure if this solves the workflow problem but two (or more) people can share the same cloud storage account but maintain their own personal login information. The desktop vs. web component can be worked out later - the platform supports this.
- Addressed above?
- S3 lets you store as much as you want (theoretically). You pay for whatever you use.
I don't believe anyone is going to have as seamless an integration as Apple does with iCloud. I think others can get "close enough" while providing other features and functionality which surpass the extreme seamlessness iCloud purports.
- Picasa doesn't accomodate the workflow of two parents who might both want to add/edit an album containing their child's baby pictures, each using their own google account + picasa on their own laptop. iPhoto / MobileMe doesn't even come close.
- iPhoto doesn't allow for two people to collaborate on an album, each as first class citizens, and insists upon its own file storage approach which means that you can't keep two machines in sync easily.
- No cloud system that I'm aware of will let me conveniently manage a library larger than my hard drive. Why not let me specify how much hard drive space I want to allocate to a picture cache and let the pics actually live on the cloud?
I think that what's needed is a standard for filesystem-based storage/editing that addresses revisions, undo, etc., so that a library may be synced between two computers and all of that state is shared. I want to be able to undo a crop that someone else made, for example.
And, of course, the cloud needs to just work seamlessly with it all.