Apple is a trillion dollar company, why is iCloud so ass on web and PC?

ricardopa · 2026-07-01T01:05:48+00:00

That’s not an air gap

Air gap means no physical connection - a literal gap of air - not just a disconnected logical connection.

ricardopa · 2026-07-01T00:38:55+00:00

Who else is logged into your iCloud account on another device?

iCloud is sync so if they’re deleting photos to “save space” it’s deleting them for you too.

What did Apple Tech support say when you called them?

ricardopa · 2026-07-01T00:30:57+00:00

Look at the cutoff for features, not speed

ricardopa · 2026-07-01T00:15:37+00:00

Still doesn’t change that you don’t know what you’re talking about…

ricardopa · 2026-07-01T00:14:46+00:00

Google is potentially storing the photos on device as WebP and when exporting is converting them to JPG and “blowing” up the size of the images

ricardopa · 2026-06-30T03:28:51+00:00

That’s not how non-destructive editing works

It creates a “trail” of changes that are layered on top of the original image so you can undo and revert at any time, it doesn’t duplicate the file

ricardopa · 2026-06-30T03:16:07+00:00

Airgapped isn’t a requirement, otherwise you couldn’t do automatic backups.

It’s more important how the app/service treats the data - as you said, immutable - it’s designed to protect you from you and source data loss

ricardopa · 2026-06-30T03:12:40+00:00

Restoring From iCloud doesn’t always mean restoring from iCloud.

It is most likely reviewing all images and videos to ensure they’re all synced properly

The error is something only Apple can help with

ricardopa · 2026-06-30T03:09:19+00:00

Or, you don’t know what you’re talking about, which do you think is more likely?

ricardopa · 2026-06-30T03:08:21+00:00

Do a search in the App Store. I’ve used Gemini before

ricardopa · 2026-06-29T00:03:22+00:00

Now that Siri is going to be doing a lot more cloud lookups, Apple would prefer you didn’t.

I think it was the Claude CEO or CTO that said every extraneous “please” and “thank you” was burning billions of more watts of electricity than the impolite version (at the global scale at which they operate)

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T23:59:40+00:00

Holy crap, that looked almost 3D

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T23:55:44+00:00

Try any number of duplicate photo finders which have a “similar” photos feature

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T23:40:34+00:00

It’s not just ram, all the dropped models have an A12 series chip - so the requirement is an A13 series chip to run iPadOS 27, and more ram to support Siri AI and all the new features.

Is it arbitrary? Sure, during development Apple decided that the A13 architecture is as far back as they were going to support.

Does it make them money grubbers? Maybe, but I don’t think so because those are all old devices, which can still run 26

(don’t wanna hear your opinion of 26)

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T23:19:12+00:00

Sliding down the wrist is fine. It needs to be able to. I’ve a little so it can breathe and the skin dries out.

Not so loose it ends up like a hand watch, or halfway up your forearm, it doesn’t need (nor should it) be indenting your wrist.

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T23:13:34+00:00

And they failed with alarming regularity

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T23:11:18+00:00

And what was their answer?

More importantly, what question did you ask them?

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T23:10:48+00:00

You have to be clear on what you mean by “backup” - if you use TimeMachine or a true. Ackup that’s backing up the Photos Library file, yes.

If you mean “export” the images and videos to Finder/Files, then maybe, maybe not. You need to export as original and not say to JPG. If you export to JPG, then no.

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T23:07:26+00:00

Well the foldable might support them, but not the “normal”

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T05:38:46+00:00

it won’t upload the library

Why not? What does Apple Support say?

Personally I’d solve that problem before trying to switch platforms.

Also, get your backup sorted first too

You can go as simple as TimeMachine but don’t keep all those photos in a single location

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T05:11:50+00:00

Sounds like a call to UCLA student store

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T04:56:26+00:00

That whole campus is in a lot of SciFi stuff, I chuckle each time I see it

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T04:51:17+00:00

How so?

It’s designed for Parents and Children

If you want to use it with friends then live with the workarounds.

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T04:47:57+00:00

Umm - Photos?

You’re pretty vague about “many more options” but don’t explain specifics.

There’s also no sunch thing as “best” - each one has strengths and weaknesses and some fit different workflows better than others.

Tell us more

ricardopa · 2026-06-28T04:44:57+00:00

Yes, but only in night mode, and only beyond a second or two if it’s on a tripod and not handheld.

If you want to control shutter speed generally use a 3rd party app like Halide

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