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Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June... by acdha on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:08PM (#25064110)
> I've come to realize is that, with a very big photo library, no iPhone or Macbook can analyze them all and share the results with all my devices. Only a server can analyze 10,000+ pictures, identify faces, organize by date. All in a slick and fast UI.

How big is your photo library? I have about 100GB and that’s all worked perfectly well on iOS/macOS for many years - even on the old 2010 MacBook Air I used until it stopped getting security updates.

You can see a difference in quality but it’s a judgement call: Google Photos definitely indexes more things in pictures but it also has a much higher false positive rate - for example, it took until 2018-19 before searching for “cat” didn’t have two pages of results for my dog before any actual cats.

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Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June... by shaklee3 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @09:22AM (#25070137)
... And apple can't find cats correctly at all. Which would you want? Google can put a name to your cat and index by typing the name, and in that case it only finds you specific cat.
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Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June... by acdha on Thursday November 12, 2020 @09:54AM (#25070481)
How about the reality we actually live in where Apple Photos does find cats reliably with fewer false positives?
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Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June... by shaklee3 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @09:58AM (#25070538)
Which reality is that? Apple photos is consistently worse at finding them. I've never heard anyone say their image recognition is anywhere near as good, and that's my experience as well.
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