Dear Apple, Let’s Talk About Photos

We ’ve been managing our photos together for almost a tenner now . Things were courteous and dim-witted at the start and we both knew what to expect from each other — I pulled my photos off my camera on the estimator , imported them into iPhoto and arranged them . lifetime was near .

But then you come up and give me the great iPhone photographic camera and I started taking more picture like that of this endearing cow . Also you give me a howling wireless sync facility so I did n’t ever require to plug my phone into my laptop computer so I did n’t . So then the photos on my telephone and the decade of photos in my iPhoto library begin to diverge because I did n’t get rotund to syncing them .

Then you give me a beautiful iPad which would look so gross for curating my iPhoto library . I could n’t waitress to redact and organise exposure from the comfort of my sofa except that you did n’t give me any way to save matter back to the subroutine library . So I could n’t . So thing just maintain piling up on my camera pealing .

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Then I thought you ’d see my pain and figured it out – you gave me “ photograph streams ” which put every photo on every machine . Unfortunately the only way to get picture into iPhoto was still through my desktop so the fact they were available on the iPad was pedantic because I still could n’t save them to my library . Also when I pulled them off the photostream they still existed in the camera roll . Two transcript ( three if I blue-pencil them ) and you also on occasion told me to blue-pencil some because I ran out of distance .

To be honest , I make a little lost at this point . Have I transferred them into iPhoto ? I ’m not sure I ’ll arrest the photostream – ack , no , I remember you separate me to delete photos off my photostream because there were too many . Hmmm , check the tv camera roll again . give ear on a bit – where are my television ? ! Turns out photostreams do n’t stream videos . Man , these thing are not coolheaded .

Just so as you know by the way and do n’t freak out but , I ’d like to sort my photos when I ’m sat on the loo . Or in the bus , or anywhere else I want to kill time with my telephone . I do n’t desire to edit them when I ’m sat at my desktop – that ’s work time . It really pains me that I ca n’t do that and so my exposure just pile up in a handsome good deal while I waste fourth dimension take things I do n’t manage about on Twitter .

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Finally , to sum insult to injury , when we run to your lovely piffling MacBook Air you kyboshed my disk drive . All of a sudden , after 10 year of direct high - res exposure and videos I could n’t even conform to them onto my laptop . Not only that but you insist on keep a cache on my Macbook of my intact decade of photos at just the correct size for each iDevice . Did you lie with that I ’m using 7 % of my entire Macbook disk drive just stash photos for my iPhone and iPad ? That ’s crazy ! I paid a lot of money to you for that flashgun driving force — I do n’t need to waste it on a photo memory cache .

So Apple , I retrieve you ’ve got a moment confused . Do n’t vex about share , we do n’t need you for that . Your job is to take photos , organise them and make indisputable they do n’t get lost . So let ’s talk about how you could do that .

What I would like from Apple to manage my photos

1 ) I want the canonic copy of my iPhoto program library in the cloud . One iPhoto library in the cloud , many devices with entree to it . I want to delete , organise and delete photos on any twist and see the same changes on all other devices . No lord / slave setup – just straight cloud access .

2 ) you’re able to charge me for this . I suggest $ 5 / month . Maybe that ’s a piece more than it costs you at the moment but that ’s what I ’m prepared to pay up and we both know that you ’ll do very well out of this in the long run . However for that I want outright space including for all of my video . FYI that ’s not what really I ’m paying you for . I ’m really paying you for the peace of mind that you ’ve got my memories safe - defend . I ’m technically pay you for insurance policy . The utility this offers just the carrot that gets me over the swelling of ante up you .

3 ) Get free of pic streams . Make the photographic camera roll a single exposure watercourse that shows up in iPhoto ( on all devices ) . I want a unmarried camera roll that all devices feed into . I want to take photos , queue up them in my television camera paradiddle then pull them out as I organise and screen them into my subroutine library . Let me explain : pic and videos have two phases 1 . on the tv camera roll 2 . in my exposure library . Nowhere else .

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4 ) I ’d like you to create API for my iCloud tv camera roll so any camera I own could hook into it – I require to be able-bodied to buy an SLR with wireless capabilities and merely connect it as a raw beginning to my camera axial motion .

5 ) Make iPhoto on the iPad and the iPhone employment well . Make them do clever thing to give me truehearted access to my photos from the swarm . You did it for iTunes , rent ’s bring the deception a second clock time . allow me harness power of that first-class piffling machine verbatim from the loo .

This opportunity wo n’t last incessantly by the way . Most mass have n’t got a good substitute scheme and do n’t spend any money on backup but by the time they do they wo n’t be disposed to give you yet more one dollar bill to take care of their pic . When the inevitable time come in that they ’re paying Dropbox or Google $ 10 / calendar month for unlimited support they wo n’t cough up another $ 5 for photos . However they ’re not doing that now and you ’ve got a window to bring some Apple illusion .

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I experience Steve ’s not around to crack the whip but you need to get your human activity together Apple . This could be a nice little $ 2 billion / yr recur revenue stream but the window will close up . If it close up before you ’ve been bothered to sort this mess out we ’re all rodgered so chop chop !

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Peter Nixey is a Rails developer , entrepreneur , and the former CEO of Clickpass . you could follow him on Twitterhere . This man originallyappeared on his web log .

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