The mobile industry is undergoing a real fight market to become your favorite place to store all your precious photos.
“As technical as image analysis, auto labels, face recognition and computer vision systems improve, the information that can be inferred from a photograph is immense, “he told the BBC Geoff Blaber of tech consultancy CCS Insight .
“This makes default images have clear value for companies that are financed from the sale of advertising directed” he said, as Google and Facebook .
You want to store your data and they want
In this context, last week Google announced during its big annual conference for developers (I / O) a new application for storing pictures and videos, Google Photos, with which wants to compete with Apple iCloud and new photo app, and with the redesigned Yahoo Flickr app .
In addition, the storage facilities are generally as Dropbox and onedrive of Microsoft.
Everyone wants to be your base for archiving, organizing and to share your images, thereby achieving move to Facebook , which so far is the number one destination for photo sharing.
For users there are obvious advantages in being able to have a backup of photos in the cloud to have access to them at any time from any place.
But at what price? Here we tell you the pros and cons of three services: Google , Apple and Yahoo
Google Photos, seduction of the unlimited
Photos presentation during the conference Google I / O Google 2015.
The great weapon of marketing this application released last week is that besides be free is unlimited.
It works on both Android and iOS, and automatically organizes images of users, who are archived on servers Google .
The application can also enhance your photos with filters and editing tools, create photo montages about music, animations and can create links to share photos with your contacts.
Also you can use a search engine to find images very specific without you having previously labeled as if you had a kind of search engine Google within your own library of images, perfect to locate that particular photo that years ago you do not see.
Another interesting aspect is that without labeling the location of the photos, the application can infer where they were taken to identify objects in the images.
For example, you can deduce that these pictures are Paris Eiffel Tower because there is one of them.
Does trick? Some think so
On the one hand features unlimited free come at a cost: the pictures and videos are stored at a lower resolution, so they are compressed if they are over 16MP.
Although it is barely perceptible to the eye of an ordinary user, for the most concerned about the quality this can be a problem.
they Google offers premium service that saves photos in their original format to a maximum of 15GB free.
Then, costs $ 2 a month for 100GB or 10 a month for 1TB (1000GB or 1TB can store 300,000 photos, depending on size).
On the other hand, users feel more skeptical suspicion by giving a Google your privacy on a tray.
“There is no doubt Photos that Google is a massive hoarding of personal data, in a time when the images are the Internet’s largest social currency, “Natasha Lomas wrote journalist technology site TechCrunch.
” Just that more than a decade Google launched a service e-mail far more storage capacity to attract users of other e-mail services, you are now repeating the trick with photos ” he added.
“And what is the price of their free unlimited storage?” You’re giving a Google unhindered access to all the sights (and associated information) of your camera. “
The new Photos app Apple
In April Apple released Photos for iOS, Mac and the Internet.
The features of the Apple service are very similar to those of Google’s Photos app also lets you organize, search, edit and share your photos easily.
But perhaps the great advantage of the service is for fans of the brand, to allow them unhindered navigation on all Apple mobile devices, whether iPhones , iPads or MacBooks.
On the other hand, unlike Google Photos, the storage service iCloud is only free up to 5GB.
Then, 200GB will cost you $ 4 per month, and 500GB $ 10 a month.
Like Google Photos, Photos of Apple also has an option that lets you automatically upload to the cloud the new pictures of your devices.
Flickr, Yahoo’s updated
In early May Flickr introduced a new version of its website, its computer applications and mobile devices and search services bastion.
Flickr offers users free storage from 2013 and all resolutions up 1TG (1000GB) of photos and videos.
That decision helped raise about 100 million users.
The updated Flickr services allow you to store, edit, organize, search and share photos in an easier way.
One of the most notable changes in May is the ability to ” self-labeling “and image recognition functions in which it competes directly with the service Google .
The Magic View function automatically recognizes whether your photos are panoramic, capture . screen, a portrait, a sunset, etc.
The system also learns when the user corrects an automatic label wrong: for example, if Flickr identifies a motorcycle like a bicycle
Flickr still enjoys a large user base, but has been slow to incorporate improvements to their services they were already technically possible.
That allowed giant rivals such as Google , Apple, Amazon or Dropbox and small emerging companies, attracting new users and made Flickr lose part of the strength it had in its early days.
Other Services
But there are many more content storage services in the cloud that can be an alternative to Internet upload your photos.
Dropbox also allows you to make an automatic copy of your photos from your camera phone.
We organize photos by date and accessible from any device . You can also create and share albums. The basic free account comes with 2GB capacity, but you can have a 1TB premium service for about $ 12 a month.
onedrive Microsoft offers 15GB of free with the most basic features. If you need more space you can get 200GB for $ 3.99 a month or 1TB by 6.99 per month.
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