Apple You Need These Services: iPhoto Match and iVideo Match

[GWestphal]

For $24.99 per year you will match my photo library to the cloud and I can view the optimized photo sizes (or full photo size) on my devices. Same with videos, check through all my videos and synch me up with h.264 in the resolution appropriate for my device.

Or buy as a pack for $100/year iTunes Match, iVideo Match, iPhoto Match, and iCloud Pro.

 

[GWestphal]

Also buy Crashplan or Backblaze and make a proper online archival backup type solution. $4.99/month or some such for unlimited space. Then consolidate all your services to that storage and get $100/year to be able to stream video, audio, photo, and document data.

 

[JAG87]

There's something called Skydrive that already does all that.

But you can forget unlimited space. It's not happening.

 

[TheStu]

Wait, iTunes purchases for video are already available in iCloud.

And so are your pictures, or at least the most recent 1000 are. For anything else, there's dropbox, or bittorrent sync.

 

[GWestphal]

I'm talking big collections for DSLR shooters like 100s gigabytes. iCloud pricing needs to come waaay down. If you could get 5TB of space for $4.99 a month maybe it would be doable.

 

[Pandamonium]

Could you even get non-cloud non-syncing storage for that price? The last I checked, no pricing approaches what you're asking. I'm pretty sure the deal sites would go haywire over pricing of a 5TB WD green (avg warranty 1yr) for $60 or a WD Red (2yr warranty) for $120 or a WD black (5yr warranty) for $300.

IMHO, professional DSLR shooters have studios that should handle business grade pricing. I don't know that Apple sells iCloud on a commercial level though. And if you're a enthusiast/hobbyist photographer, the pricing isn't terrible either. Every hobby has its costs, photography should be no different.

IE: I'm looking into woodworking, and while the upfront tool costs seem daunting ($1-3k for "essential" tools), I know that the ongoing costs of lumber will eclipse the tool cost in a few years.

 

[Berliner]

If you shoot in RAW you would be out of luck anyway. JPG libraries should be doable, maybe even for that price if you consider it a mixed calculation with a lot of small users.

 

[jumpman54]

Wait, iTunes purchases for video are already available in iCloud.

And so are your pictures, or at least the most recent 1000 are. For anything else, there's dropbox, or bittorrent sync.

But aren't photos available only for 30days?

 

[GWestphal]

iCloud can be purchased in 10, 20, 50GB for $20, $40, or $100/year respectively. Using iCloud to back up 3TB would cost $6K per year...that's insane pricing for a hobby you could buy a new 5DMIII for that price with a f2.8 70-200.

That might be fair for active data and having good up/down to the server, but for large data archiving its cost prohibitive. Hence why they should have two tiers: iCloud active data syncing, and iVault for archival backups.

 

[Rakehellion]

For $24.99 per year you will match my photo library to the cloud and I can view the optimized photo sizes (or full photo size) on my devices.

iCloud already does this for free.

 

[GWestphal]

It does 5GB for free...I think most peoples photo collections alone dwarf that.

 

[Rakehellion]

Photo Stream has no data limit http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4858?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US