iCloud & iPhoto demise

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iCloud & iPhoto demise

I quote :https://www.apple.com/my/osx/photos-preview/?cid=CDM-MY-P0016475-Aperture&cp=em- P0016475-335251&sr=em with the impending demise of iPhoto and a new Photo app becoming available in the not too distant future, it seems to me, the way Apple is marketing this new Photo App, is so that a picture I take on my iPhone will be sent to iCloud similarly all my pictures on my iPhoto in my iMac will also be moved to iCloud wether I like it or not. I might be wrong, but I have a few questions :

1) who pays for the pictures taken on my iPhone, iPad to go to iCloud

2) who pays for my photos in iPhoto to go to iCloud.

3) what if I don't want to use iCloud , as it is often unavailable, at all and prefer to keep all my data including pictures on my iPhone, iPad and transfer them manually to my iMac as I have been doing for years, and then transfer then to an external HD as I have been doing for years as well.

4) what If I want to keep iPhoto and not use this new Photo app?

thanks,

swaza

Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Mar 5, 2015 5:06 PM

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LarryHN

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Mar 5, 2015 9:57 PM in response to Swaza

No one can answer detailed questions about Photos until it is released

as long as you are using the current OS you can keep iPhoto - some day an OS upgrade will cause it not to work, again no one know when that will happen

What is available form Apple on it is here - https://www.apple.com/osx/photos-preview/

LN

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Swaza Author

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Mar 5, 2015 10:04 PM in response to LarryHN

Hi Larry, thanks for that, your link is a condensed version of the link I posted. There is a BETA version on offer, so someone must know, anyway, will sit back and watch as things develop.

Still like an answer on the iCloud issue, even though Photo is in it's infancy still

Thanks again

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Yer_Man

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Mar 5, 2015 10:43 PM in response to Swaza

Use of the Cloud is not mandatory. That much is in the public domain. So too is the fact that you have an allowance of cloud space for free and for more you pay a monthly charge. Also in the public domain: iPhoto will continue to run on Yosemite. No one knows what happens in the next version of the OS.

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Swaza Author

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Mar 5, 2015 10:57 PM in response to Yer_Man

HI Terence, thanks for you comment.

I Understand about the 25 GB quota provided by Apple & having to pay for extra space should one require it. My comment/query was directed more at the fact that although one might have 25GB of Storage proved for Free by Apple, assuming one uses the 25GB or more to have one's photos, tunes, data etc one still has to pay to get it there via ones' ISP .

SO, someone like me, who has some 9 GB of Pictures I'm more than a little worried IF I would HAVE to send my Pictures to iCloud via my ISP

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Yer_Man

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Mar 5, 2015 11:02 PM in response to Swaza

The Cloud library is not mandatory. You don't have to use it.

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Swaza Author

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Mar 5, 2015 11:04 PM in response to Yer_Man

Thanks

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Mar 5, 2015 11:09 PM in response to Swaza

P.S., Your iCloud storage is not used in any way for tunes. It is used for backups of your iOS devices, and, if you wish to use it, for photos. That's it.

Cheers,

GB

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Swaza Author

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Mar 5, 2015 11:12 PM in response to gail from maine

TThanks GB ! Appreciated.

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Answer 9

Mar 5, 2015 11:50 PM in response to Swaza

Welcome 🙂

Cheers,

GB

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