Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited Photo Storage

Re:Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited P... by k2enemy on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @10:13AM (#8556856)

> I smell a bubble in online photo storage. Every pic I take gets uploaded to G+, Facebook, Dropbox, and apparently now Amazon.

I know what you mean. Lately I've gotten the impression that companies aren't offering photo storage as a feature to entice more people to use their services, but that they want our photos for some reason. Maybe advances in image recognition let them use the photos to mine marketable data?

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Re:Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited P... by jrockway on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @03:35PM (#8558895)

I think it's simpler than this; they want to fully utilize their compute resources so they can squeeze suppliers for better prices. If Amazon can get a one cent discount on hard drives by buying more, then Amazon.com is cheaper to run.

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Re:Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited P... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @10:39AM (#8557026)

I wonder how much effort it would be to subject the images to some simple and reversible transform to foil that sort of thing. (e.g., extract every odd-numbered pixel to its own layer, rotate it by 180 degrees, and merge.)

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Re:Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited P... by general_failure on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @10:30AM (#8556958)

Things like geo data, people, dresses can all be detected and used to suggest various products.

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