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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by WhyNotHugo on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:11PM (#22405943)
Honestly, the killers are Google Photos and Google Maps.

Google Photos lets me back up photos from my phone AND copy them to my PC. I haven't found any other way to copy photos from an iPhone into a laptop (unless you use macOS). Since they already handle my photos, I might as well use it for backups.

And Google Maps is pretty uncontested when it comes to moving around. Apple Maps doesn't even have a "biking" option (in a country where > 90% of the population bike everywhere, that's a killer).

Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by mceachen on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:56PM (#22406437)
> I haven't found any other way to copy photos from an iPhone into a laptop

Both SyncThing and Resilio Sync work well for this, but require your "server"/laptop to be on in order to sync.

You can also just plug in the device, and it should mount as USB storage on both Windows and Linux.

(I have no financial interest in either pieces of software, other than regularly needing to recommend them to my PhotoStructure users).

Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by FalconSensei on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:13PM (#22406615)
So, you have to keep a computer on to sync files. And then, what about automatically tagging people, suggesting fixes (rotation, lights), searching by location name, sharing albums, etc?
Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by mceachen on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:58PM (#22407158)
That's what I want PhotoStructure to do.

It already has best-of-class deduping, "variant" clustering support, and metadata inference, as well as a UI that makes browsing very large libraries feel serendipitous. I release roughly every month, and it's free (in exchange for feedback) during the closed beta. Here's what's coming soon: https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/

Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by robto on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:53PM (#22407731)
Do you know how to get SyncThing on an iPhone? This is the last piece in the synchronize-the-whole-family's-media-so-that-it's-easy-to-share-and-backup project! Last time I checked there was no iOS client.
Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by arriu on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:16PM (#22405997)
Agreed, but... check out the following app https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/moments

I use it in conjunction with Google Photos as a secondary back-up of the original photos (to the local drive and a thrid-party cloud back-up)

Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by intopieces on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:20PM (#22406041)
>I haven’t found any other way to copy photos from an iPhone into a laptop (unless you use macOS).

iMazing does this, and is available for MacOS and Windows.

https://imazing.com/guides/how-to-transfer-iphone-ipad-or-ip...

Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by hello_moto on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:21PM (#22406046)
Sorry stupid question: how do you copy the photos from G-Photos to your PC? Through Google Drive?
Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by datguacdoh on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:34PM (#22406175)
https://photos.google.com/apps - they have a utility for Mac and Windows called Backup and Sync.
Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by beatgammit on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:15PM (#22407338)
What about Linux? The draw for many of these Linux phones is that they run Linux, so tools work the same between them.

I've used third party utilities for mounting GDrive locally, but they're kind of a pain to use and aren't official by any stretch of the imagination. All of my personal computers run Linux exclusively, and only my wife's desktop runs Windows in our house, so Google Photos doesn't mean much to me.

Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by wazoox on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:58PM (#22406457)
I don't know for iPhones, but Dropbox for Android does this too. Now I've switched to my own NextCloud, and it also syncs photos to your personal cloud (and your PC/Mac).