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  • Google Photos to end free unlimited storage on June 1, 2021

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    cpsro said:
    Google Photos isn’t free. The company retains a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right-to-use your pics for any money-making purpose the company chooses, even after you delete your photos and account.
    Inevitably whenever the subject of Photos comes up, someone posts this misinterpreted view of a bog standard Creative Commons software license.  Not really sure how this is still misunderstood by so many (yes, I'm generalizing, but you're not the first to post this. sadly you won't be the last either).  This license is common boilerplate for any company that interacts with customer data.   Yes, Apple has the same license in their ToS... as does FB, MS, Yahoo, Twitter, etc.  I could go on for a long time, but you get the point.  Any number of combinations of the search terms "royalty free" + "worldwide" + "license" + "terms of service" + Company X, will net you a Creative Commons license notification from that company.

    tl;dr That license doesn't mean what you think it means.


    You are so wrong. Clearly you’ve not read the license and understood it. No surprise. Google has carefully crafted a custom license that is difficult to interpret, but what I describe succinctly is correct... and the perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use is granted to Google alone. Google attempts to assuage users’ fears by stating users retain ownership of their pics, which is correct, but they are glossing over the sweeping rights granted to Google merely by using their ‘free’ service.

    By the way, Apple’s service licenses are far more clearly worded (last I checked!) and clearly state that data are only mined for the purpose of serving the user/customer. And if the user deletes their data, the data are in fact deleted.
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  • Google Photos to end free unlimited storage on June 1, 2021

    cpsrocpsro
    Google Photos isn’t free. The company retains a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right-to-use your pics for any money-making purpose the company chooses, even after you delete your photos and account.
    dysamoriarazorpitDogpersonBeatschasmwatto_cobra

  • MacBook Air, 13- and 16-inch MacBook Pro reportedly first Apple Silicon Macs

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    They'd better have at least 1080p webcams.
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  • Windows 10X delayed, devices won't arrive until 2021

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    An intentional delay of 10X might be a strategy to slow/undermine Apple's migration to ARM.
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  • Compared: Apple's Developer Transition Kit versus Mac mini

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    melgross said:
    if Apple can’t get thunderbolt on ARM Macs, that will be a big problem.
    TB3 is working great on an AMD + Ubuntu 20.04 system and I suspect there will be no real problem bringing TB4 to ARM Macs.
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