No, Photostream stores ALL your photos from the last 30 days from the camera rolls of your iDevices and your "recently imported" section of iPhoto.
Your iDevices only cache the last 1000 photos. Your Mac downloads ALL photos from ALL devices from the last 30 days, even if you shoot 4 million photos in the last 30 days.
I wonder how this will work as you delete some of your recently shot photos. I hope you aren't expected to delete the photos individually on every device you own.
I would like to see a new option added to apps currently able to publish to MobileMe ...i.e. iPhoto, Aperture ... to be as it is in iWeb. Simply add in an alternate FTP option.
I have no problem re uploading all my galleries to my own web hosting just allow it Apple! Please! We don't all want to use FB and Fickr!
I assume most functions would work although some server side functions might be lost but there is no reason why most of it wouldn't relocate just fine.
I wonder how this will work as you delete some of your recently shot photos. I hope you aren't expected to delete the photos individually on every device you own.
Nooo ... delete on one and it would be deleted on all. Better be an 'Are you really sure' dialog though
I do the same thing only I use Google to sync my bookmarks (Chrome browser) iCal (Google) Mail (Google) Docs (Google) Contacts (Google)...... all for free but waiting to see what iCloud can and might try it out.....
I tried to use Google for calendar and address book syncing for over a year. After several frustrating incidents where my data was either lost or duplicated I swore never to depend on their sync services again. Never had a serious problem with MobileMe sync services.
Nooo ... delete on one and it would be deleted on all. Better be an 'Are you really sure' dialog though
Right, but how will we control whether to delete an image from all devices (unwanted photo) or only from the current device (to save space on that device)?
Also, aside from syncing the Camera Roll, will iCloud make it any easier to sync events/albums across different devices, or are we stuck with the current, inefficient wired process?
Typical workflow:
1) New photos automatically stored in iPhone's or iPad's Camera Roll
2) When syncing to Mac, open separate photo application to manually import desired images from Camera Roll into newly created Aperture Projects or iPhoto Events. No option available to delete those images from iPhone or iPad.
3) In iTunes, configure which Aperture/iPhoto Events I want synced to which mobile devices. Can only be managed while each device is connected, typically after waiting for each device to sync.
4) Once new images have been imported to desktop application, and mobile devices have finished
syncing, disconnect mobile device and manually delete those images from the each device's Camera Roll.
Right, but how will we control whether to delete an image from all devices (unwanted photo) or only from the current device (to save space on that device)?
Also, aside from syncing the Camera Roll, will iCloud make it any easier to sync events/albums across different devices, or are we stuck with the current, inefficient wired process?
Typical workflow:
1) New photos automatically stored in iPhone's or iPad's Camera Roll
2) When syncing to Mac, open separate photo application to manually import desired images from Camera Roll into newly created Aperture Projects or iPhoto Events. No option available to delete those images from iPhone or iPad.
3) In iTunes, configure which Aperture/iPhoto Events I want synced to which mobile devices. Can only be managed while each device is connected, typically after waiting for each device to sync.
4) Once new images have been imported to desktop application, and mobile devices have finished
syncing, disconnect mobile device and manually delete those images from the each device's Camera Roll.
I am only guessing but I'd think there are two ways deleting across devices would occur. From the temporary and initial import stage and later from a universally shared album. I am sure once in an Aperture Library they would be immune from deletion from another device unless that album was designated as shared rather like a current galley does now. There would be no syncing as we now think of it, it would just happen.
Exactly - photostream has NOTHING to do with the web galleries, and as such it isn't clear why Apple is killing the galleries. I got MobileMe based on the demo of how easy it is to share pictures with the rest of your family, and iCloud is a huge step backwards from what I can see. While getting photos on to my Mac is more cumbersome than it needs to be (which could have been solved with a back-to-my-mac based autosync or even just WiFi autosync when on my home LAN...), I've never even been worried about seeing a picture on my phone that I just took on my iPad. Not having my galleries, on the other hand, is a loss.
Setting up the iCloud account with my iTunes info is also going to be a problem - I had a separate MobileMe ID just so that we can share our iTunes account in the home and not have that linked to individual email. Now what? (Apart from moving mail off of MobileMe...)
One step forward, 2 steps back. Argh.
Glad to see I'm not alone in thinking that Photo Stream takes away much more than it offers. I'd gladly pay $100 to keep Web Gallery, web hosting, backup, iDisk, keychain synch and all the rest. Why does iCloud have to remove so much?
I am only guessing but I'd think there are two ways deleting across devices would occur. From the temporary and initial import stage and later from a universally shared album. I am sure once in an Aperture Library they would be immune from deletion from another device unless that album was designated as shared rather like a current galley does now. There would be no syncing as we now think of it, it would just happen.
This sounds a lot more complicated than our current system. Maybe I just have to see it in action but I'm having a tough time envisioning how managing pictures from the camera roll will work. Adding (taking pictures) and deleting from the camera roll makes sense to me. It's when you want to move something out of the camera roll and into an album that it gets messy for me.
Since the Mac is now demoted to just another device, it would seem that you could just move any picture from the camera roll on your iPhone into an newly created album and have that change reflected on all your devices, but it seems that only the camera roll is synched between devices. Right? Doesn't that mean that I'd still have to physically synch up the iPhone, Mac and other iOS devices to reflect the newly created album and camera tool pictures? Does moving a camera roll picture into an album automatically delete it from the camera roll on all my devices? Is that something I have to do manually? Or maybe adding a picture into an album doesn't remove it from the camera roll at all and instead creates a duplicate. This gets confusing rather quickly.
What about tagging of places and faces? Will that be something that we can do on iOS now that the Mac has been demoted? What about merging of events? Does that still require a hard synch to reflect the changes? It seems Photo Stream is only a part way photo synch solution and will require a substantial amount of thought on the users part to remember which pictures from the camera roll have been added to events, albums and tagged.
There is a saying in politics that if you have to explain you've already lost.
This isn't politics. This is business. Different game, different rules.
Jobs spent length explaining this service because it is something different and setting the right expectations is key to keeping the B&M crowd at bay. Also, the audience for Apple products has grown and it's not just Mac users who all know about .mac and mobile me and can just be told "we killed the price and syncing X, Y, Z" and know what the rest of it is.
Also it was WWDC where a key audience is the developers and they need the details. So again, length
Wow, I am really gonna miss Keychain Sync. This has been a lifesaver. If I visit a site on my home computer and create an account with a password, it becomes available in Keychain on my laptop on the road. I don't have to write it down anywhere. I suppose I can send a copy of the keychain data to dropbox to sync between the 2. Does anyone know where this data is stored? and can the location be moved?
Also, this is going to be much more expensive than the Mobile Me plan.
Mobile Me $99.
ICloud - $25 to sync songs
Godaddy - $54 to host website
Drop box. $99 to host large files to share. (since iDrive is no longer avail) no pirated stuff
1Password - $40
So to accomplish the same thing. I would need to spend at least $229.
I only use Gallery and my MobileMe e-mail address. I will continue to use google for calendar and contacts and migrate to full time use of my google e-mail account. My iPad and my iMac seem to work well with google services. Right now, I am thinking that I will not replace Gallery, but post photos I want to share on Facebook. The photo stream seems useless.
I have no problem re uploading all my galleries to my own web hosting just allow it Apple!
Who says they don't already. Facebook was originally via a plug in. Any company that wanted could likely still go that route if they wished. Apple would probably love it and help them do it.
In the end, this is the nature of a lot of "missing" features. Folks put it on Apple to add them when in fact there's another party involved. You want direct access to your web host from iPhoto talk to your web host about why they haven't created a plug in that will do it. You want to be able to re-download/stream your movies that you buy from iTunes, talk to the studios. And so on. Even some of the features missing in the new Final Cut could be due to being patented tech that doesn't belong to Apple and either the feature is so rarely used compared to the whole that they don't want to make everyone pay for it versus those that need it getting the plug in or the patent holder doesn't want it put in the app so that folks will come directly to them.
Wow, I am really gonna miss Keychain Sync. This has been a lifesaver. If I visit a site on my home computer and create an account with a password, it becomes available in Keychain on my laptop on the road. I don't have to write it down anywhere. I suppose I can send a copy of the keychain data to dropbox to sync between the 2. Does anyone know where this data is stored? and can the location be moved?
Also, this is going to be much more expensive than the Mobile Me plan.
Mobile Me $99.
ICloud - $25 to sync songs
Godaddy - $54 to host website
Drop box. $99 to host large files to share. (since iDrive is no longer avail) no pirated stuff
1Password - $40
So to accomplish the same thing. I would need to spend at least $229.
Bummer.
I'm going to miss Keychain sync as well, but I don't think this is a showstopper considering the new features. iCloud is restructuring how data is stored, for security purposes. Adapting Keychain and other data types probably adds significant complexity to the effort and might have delayed the iCloud launch for another year. I wouldn't be surprised to see them add more features, like Keychain sync, in the future.
"ICloud - $25 to sync songs"
Actually, this will be FREE for any songs purchased on iTunes. For $25, they'll also provide cloud sync for songs NOT purchased on iTunes, at a higher quality, automatically (that includes your pirated music). What sort of music syncing can you do now with MobileMe? Also, this is SYNCING not STREAMING, unlike Amazon and others. Your music is accessible whether or not you have an internet connection, and if iCloud ever goes away, you still have your music, unlike streaming services.
"Godaddy - $54 to host website"
Most of us were not using MobileMe to host websites. Bummer for those who were, but I suspect this affects a very small number of people.
"Drop box. $99 to host large files to share. (since iDrive is no longer avail)
iCloud will provide 5GB of free storage for their mail, documents and backup, Any storage for music, apps and books purchased from Apple, and the storage required by Photo Stream does NOT count towards the 5GB limit.
Price comparison:
2GB 5GB 50GB
iCloud Free Free $100
Dropbox Free N/A $100
"1Password - $40"
This is a one-time purchase cost, not a recurring fee.
"Also, this is going to be much more expensive than the Mobile Me plan. Mobile Me $99. I would need to spend at least $229. "
iCloud will provide a good chunk of what MobileME provided, plus more, for FREE.
Some things will cost extra, and some things will not be offered at all. iCloud will not cost most people $229 vs $99. For most people it will provide some great services for free. For those who depended on the now gone services, you've got a year to make your transition.
Oh please, come on... How can photo stream replace gallery?? Why would I wish ALL my pics being streamed?
And the bad port is... I just can't find a third party to replace that.. I can find replacement for iDisk and web hosting, but just can't find something to stream straight from iPhoto seamlessly...
I'll also miss iWeb. Handy for quickly running up pretty websites \
Agree. I fervently hope Apple has some alternate solution to this need going forward. It is a basic itch that iWeb allowed us to scratch. I think Apple is being very shortsighted and mean spirited in taking this easy solution away from its users.
Read my sig and promulgate it. If iWeb users responded with anything near to the passion of Final Cut users, we might get relief.
No, Photostream stores ALL your photos from the last 30 days from the camera rolls of your iDevices and your "recently imported" section of iPhoto.
Your iDevices only cache the last 1000 photos. Your Mac downloads ALL photos from ALL devices from the last 30 days, even if you shoot 4 million photos in the last 30 days.
So 30 days from the day it's shot a photo disappears from the cloud? I hope that they include a paid way to extend this time somehow.
Apple implementation of sync caused me constant problems with losing data,or double, triple, instances of same data. It appears it was never sure what was the master computer and which were the clones. Good idea poor implementation.
"Well there's your problem"! There isn't a master computer - MobileMe was the master. But yeah, Apple's sync code was very buggy. Which is odd because synchronization logic, while very complex, is not difficult to implement.
So 30 days from the day it's shot a photo disappears from the cloud? I hope that they include a paid way to extend this time somehow.
The 30 days is to give all your devices enough time to connect and get a copy of the photo. You can keep your photos forever by simply dragging them to a album they will be stored forever.
Now your Photo Stream doesn't count toward your 5GB limit but I would expect that once a file is move to an album to store indefinitely that would no longer be considered your Photo Steam and therefore use your 5GB of storage and will give you plenty of time to move them out of your iCloud photo albums if you wish to regain your iCloud storage.
Agree. I fervently hope Apple has some alternate solution to this need going forward. It is a basic itch that iWeb allowed us to scratch. I think Apple is being very shortsighted and mean spirited in taking this easy solution away from its users
Mean? Give me a break. Discontinuing a product is not mean. Perhaps you've never made a product to sell, but I can guarantee you that you don't discontinue a product to be mean - you do it because it no longer makes business sense.
Besides, there's Sandvox and RapidWeaver. Honestly, what is the problem here?
don't be so sure it is gone. The syncing is documents AND DATA. Keychains, widgets etc could be viewed as app data and thus still syncing. Just not as its own named line item
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It is a basic itch that iWeb allowed us to scratch. I think Apple is being very shortsighted and mean spirited in taking this easy solution away from its users.
As someone else pointed out, this is a business decision to remove something they have data showing wasn't really that used. Also iWeb actually sucks. The code is disgustingly clunky and not very well done. It was actually better to kill it and either give up that world to other spots like wordpress etc or perhaps in the future buy out a better program like rapid weaver or macflux
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If iWeb users responded with anything near to the passion of Final Cut users, we might get relief.
Or not given that Apple doesn't listen to such things when their own data tells them a much different story. If they did then we'd have FCP7 to X importing added in despite the huge work it would allegedly take. We'd have all the missing features like export to tape put back in. ANd they would go back to the old interface and not this "iMovie looking bull shit"
Also, the bitching FC users are a small group compared to those of us pro users that actually understand the game and didn't walk into FCPX expecting it to be perfect on day one. Many of us actually like the new version and are enjoying out time learning it so that in a few months when we have it all figured out and all of our current projects are done, we can start using it.
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No, Photostream stores ALL your photos from the last 30 days from the camera rolls of your iDevices and your "recently imported" section of iPhoto.
Your iDevices only cache the last 1000 photos. Your Mac downloads ALL photos from ALL devices from the last 30 days, even if you shoot 4 million photos in the last 30 days.
I wonder how this will work as you delete some of your recently shot photos. I hope you aren't expected to delete the photos individually on every device you own.
I would like to see a new option added to apps currently able to publish to MobileMe ...i.e. iPhoto, Aperture ... to be as it is in iWeb. Simply add in an alternate FTP option.
I have no problem re uploading all my galleries to my own web hosting just allow it Apple! Please! We don't all want to use FB and Fickr!
I assume most functions would work although some server side functions might be lost but there is no reason why most of it wouldn't relocate just fine.
I wonder how this will work as you delete some of your recently shot photos. I hope you aren't expected to delete the photos individually on every device you own.
Nooo ... delete on one and it would be deleted on all. Better be an 'Are you really sure' dialog though
I do the same thing only I use Google to sync my bookmarks (Chrome browser) iCal (Google) Mail (Google) Docs (Google) Contacts (Google)...... all for free but waiting to see what iCloud can and might try it out.....
I tried to use Google for calendar and address book syncing for over a year. After several frustrating incidents where my data was either lost or duplicated I swore never to depend on their sync services again. Never had a serious problem with MobileMe sync services.
Nooo ... delete on one and it would be deleted on all. Better be an 'Are you really sure' dialog though
Right, but how will we control whether to delete an image from all devices (unwanted photo) or only from the current device (to save space on that device)?
Also, aside from syncing the Camera Roll, will iCloud make it any easier to sync events/albums across different devices, or are we stuck with the current, inefficient wired process?
Typical workflow:
1) New photos automatically stored in iPhone's or iPad's Camera Roll
2) When syncing to Mac, open separate photo application to manually import desired images from Camera Roll into newly created Aperture Projects or iPhoto Events. No option available to delete those images from iPhone or iPad.
3) In iTunes, configure which Aperture/iPhoto Events I want synced to which mobile devices. Can only be managed while each device is connected, typically after waiting for each device to sync.
4) Once new images have been imported to desktop application, and mobile devices have finished
syncing, disconnect mobile device and manually delete those images from the each device's Camera Roll.
Right, but how will we control whether to delete an image from all devices (unwanted photo) or only from the current device (to save space on that device)?
Also, aside from syncing the Camera Roll, will iCloud make it any easier to sync events/albums across different devices, or are we stuck with the current, inefficient wired process?
Typical workflow:
1) New photos automatically stored in iPhone's or iPad's Camera Roll
2) When syncing to Mac, open separate photo application to manually import desired images from Camera Roll into newly created Aperture Projects or iPhoto Events. No option available to delete those images from iPhone or iPad.
3) In iTunes, configure which Aperture/iPhoto Events I want synced to which mobile devices. Can only be managed while each device is connected, typically after waiting for each device to sync.
4) Once new images have been imported to desktop application, and mobile devices have finished
syncing, disconnect mobile device and manually delete those images from the each device's Camera Roll.
I am only guessing but I'd think there are two ways deleting across devices would occur. From the temporary and initial import stage and later from a universally shared album. I am sure once in an Aperture Library they would be immune from deletion from another device unless that album was designated as shared rather like a current galley does now. There would be no syncing as we now think of it, it would just happen.
Exactly - photostream has NOTHING to do with the web galleries, and as such it isn't clear why Apple is killing the galleries. I got MobileMe based on the demo of how easy it is to share pictures with the rest of your family, and iCloud is a huge step backwards from what I can see. While getting photos on to my Mac is more cumbersome than it needs to be (which could have been solved with a back-to-my-mac based autosync or even just WiFi autosync when on my home LAN...), I've never even been worried about seeing a picture on my phone that I just took on my iPad. Not having my galleries, on the other hand, is a loss.
Setting up the iCloud account with my iTunes info is also going to be a problem - I had a separate MobileMe ID just so that we can share our iTunes account in the home and not have that linked to individual email. Now what? (Apart from moving mail off of MobileMe...)
One step forward, 2 steps back. Argh.
Glad to see I'm not alone in thinking that Photo Stream takes away much more than it offers. I'd gladly pay $100 to keep Web Gallery, web hosting, backup, iDisk, keychain synch and all the rest. Why does iCloud have to remove so much?
I am only guessing but I'd think there are two ways deleting across devices would occur. From the temporary and initial import stage and later from a universally shared album. I am sure once in an Aperture Library they would be immune from deletion from another device unless that album was designated as shared rather like a current galley does now. There would be no syncing as we now think of it, it would just happen.
This sounds a lot more complicated than our current system. Maybe I just have to see it in action but I'm having a tough time envisioning how managing pictures from the camera roll will work. Adding (taking pictures) and deleting from the camera roll makes sense to me. It's when you want to move something out of the camera roll and into an album that it gets messy for me.
Since the Mac is now demoted to just another device, it would seem that you could just move any picture from the camera roll on your iPhone into an newly created album and have that change reflected on all your devices, but it seems that only the camera roll is synched between devices. Right? Doesn't that mean that I'd still have to physically synch up the iPhone, Mac and other iOS devices to reflect the newly created album and camera tool pictures? Does moving a camera roll picture into an album automatically delete it from the camera roll on all my devices? Is that something I have to do manually? Or maybe adding a picture into an album doesn't remove it from the camera roll at all and instead creates a duplicate. This gets confusing rather quickly.
What about tagging of places and faces? Will that be something that we can do on iOS now that the Mac has been demoted? What about merging of events? Does that still require a hard synch to reflect the changes? It seems Photo Stream is only a part way photo synch solution and will require a substantial amount of thought on the users part to remember which pictures from the camera roll have been added to events, albums and tagged.
There is a saying in politics that if you have to explain you've already lost.
This isn't politics. This is business. Different game, different rules.
Jobs spent length explaining this service because it is something different and setting the right expectations is key to keeping the B&M crowd at bay. Also, the audience for Apple products has grown and it's not just Mac users who all know about .mac and mobile me and can just be told "we killed the price and syncing X, Y, Z" and know what the rest of it is.
Also it was WWDC where a key audience is the developers and they need the details. So again, length
Also, this is going to be much more expensive than the Mobile Me plan.
Mobile Me $99.
ICloud - $25 to sync songs
Godaddy - $54 to host website
Drop box. $99 to host large files to share. (since iDrive is no longer avail) no pirated stuff
1Password - $40
So to accomplish the same thing. I would need to spend at least $229.
Bummer.
Mike
I have no problem re uploading all my galleries to my own web hosting just allow it Apple!
Who says they don't already. Facebook was originally via a plug in. Any company that wanted could likely still go that route if they wished. Apple would probably love it and help them do it.
In the end, this is the nature of a lot of "missing" features. Folks put it on Apple to add them when in fact there's another party involved. You want direct access to your web host from iPhoto talk to your web host about why they haven't created a plug in that will do it. You want to be able to re-download/stream your movies that you buy from iTunes, talk to the studios. And so on. Even some of the features missing in the new Final Cut could be due to being patented tech that doesn't belong to Apple and either the feature is so rarely used compared to the whole that they don't want to make everyone pay for it versus those that need it getting the plug in or the patent holder doesn't want it put in the app so that folks will come directly to them.
Wow, I am really gonna miss Keychain Sync. This has been a lifesaver. If I visit a site on my home computer and create an account with a password, it becomes available in Keychain on my laptop on the road. I don't have to write it down anywhere. I suppose I can send a copy of the keychain data to dropbox to sync between the 2. Does anyone know where this data is stored? and can the location be moved?
Also, this is going to be much more expensive than the Mobile Me plan.
Mobile Me $99.
ICloud - $25 to sync songs
Godaddy - $54 to host website
Drop box. $99 to host large files to share. (since iDrive is no longer avail) no pirated stuff
1Password - $40
So to accomplish the same thing. I would need to spend at least $229.
Bummer.
I'm going to miss Keychain sync as well, but I don't think this is a showstopper considering the new features. iCloud is restructuring how data is stored, for security purposes. Adapting Keychain and other data types probably adds significant complexity to the effort and might have delayed the iCloud launch for another year. I wouldn't be surprised to see them add more features, like Keychain sync, in the future.
"ICloud - $25 to sync songs"
Actually, this will be FREE for any songs purchased on iTunes. For $25, they'll also provide cloud sync for songs NOT purchased on iTunes, at a higher quality, automatically (that includes your pirated music). What sort of music syncing can you do now with MobileMe? Also, this is SYNCING not STREAMING, unlike Amazon and others. Your music is accessible whether or not you have an internet connection, and if iCloud ever goes away, you still have your music, unlike streaming services.
"Godaddy - $54 to host website"
Most of us were not using MobileMe to host websites. Bummer for those who were, but I suspect this affects a very small number of people.
"Drop box. $99 to host large files to share. (since iDrive is no longer avail)
iCloud will provide 5GB of free storage for their mail, documents and backup, Any storage for music, apps and books purchased from Apple, and the storage required by Photo Stream does NOT count towards the 5GB limit.
Price comparison:
2GB 5GB 50GB
iCloud Free Free $100
Dropbox Free N/A $100
"1Password - $40"
This is a one-time purchase cost, not a recurring fee.
"Also, this is going to be much more expensive than the Mobile Me plan. Mobile Me $99. I would need to spend at least $229. "
iCloud will provide a good chunk of what MobileME provided, plus more, for FREE.
Some things will cost extra, and some things will not be offered at all. iCloud will not cost most people $229 vs $99. For most people it will provide some great services for free. For those who depended on the now gone services, you've got a year to make your transition.
And the bad port is... I just can't find a third party to replace that.. I can find replacement for iDisk and web hosting, but just can't find something to stream straight from iPhoto seamlessly...
I just hate they are doing this...
I'll also miss iWeb. Handy for quickly running up pretty websites
Agree. I fervently hope Apple has some alternate solution to this need going forward. It is a basic itch that iWeb allowed us to scratch. I think Apple is being very shortsighted and mean spirited in taking this easy solution away from its users.
Read my sig and promulgate it. If iWeb users responded with anything near to the passion of Final Cut users, we might get relief.
No, Photostream stores ALL your photos from the last 30 days from the camera rolls of your iDevices and your "recently imported" section of iPhoto.
Your iDevices only cache the last 1000 photos. Your Mac downloads ALL photos from ALL devices from the last 30 days, even if you shoot 4 million photos in the last 30 days.
So 30 days from the day it's shot a photo disappears from the cloud? I hope that they include a paid way to extend this time somehow.
Apple implementation of sync caused me constant problems with losing data,or double, triple, instances of same data. It appears it was never sure what was the master computer and which were the clones. Good idea poor implementation.
"Well there's your problem"! There isn't a master computer - MobileMe was the master. But yeah, Apple's sync code was very buggy. Which is odd because synchronization logic, while very complex, is not difficult to implement.
So 30 days from the day it's shot a photo disappears from the cloud? I hope that they include a paid way to extend this time somehow.
The 30 days is to give all your devices enough time to connect and get a copy of the photo. You can keep your photos forever by simply dragging them to a album they will be stored forever.
Now your Photo Stream doesn't count toward your 5GB limit but I would expect that once a file is move to an album to store indefinitely that would no longer be considered your Photo Steam and therefore use your 5GB of storage and will give you plenty of time to move them out of your iCloud photo albums if you wish to regain your iCloud storage.
Agree. I fervently hope Apple has some alternate solution to this need going forward. It is a basic itch that iWeb allowed us to scratch. I think Apple is being very shortsighted and mean spirited in taking this easy solution away from its users
Mean? Give me a break. Discontinuing a product is not mean. Perhaps you've never made a product to sell, but I can guarantee you that you don't discontinue a product to be mean - you do it because it no longer makes business sense.
Besides, there's Sandvox and RapidWeaver. Honestly, what is the problem here?
I'm going to miss Keychain sync as well,
don't be so sure it is gone. The syncing is documents AND DATA. Keychains, widgets etc could be viewed as app data and thus still syncing. Just not as its own named line item
It is a basic itch that iWeb allowed us to scratch. I think Apple is being very shortsighted and mean spirited in taking this easy solution away from its users.
As someone else pointed out, this is a business decision to remove something they have data showing wasn't really that used. Also iWeb actually sucks. The code is disgustingly clunky and not very well done. It was actually better to kill it and either give up that world to other spots like wordpress etc or perhaps in the future buy out a better program like rapid weaver or macflux
If iWeb users responded with anything near to the passion of Final Cut users, we might get relief.
Or not given that Apple doesn't listen to such things when their own data tells them a much different story. If they did then we'd have FCP7 to X importing added in despite the huge work it would allegedly take. We'd have all the missing features like export to tape put back in. ANd they would go back to the old interface and not this "iMovie looking bull shit"
Also, the bitching FC users are a small group compared to those of us pro users that actually understand the game and didn't walk into FCPX expecting it to be perfect on day one. Many of us actually like the new version and are enjoying out time learning it so that in a few months when we have it all figured out and all of our current projects are done, we can start using it.