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by pigubrco 5057 days ago
Interesting...the one nice thing I do like about the Google+ app running on Android is how it automatically uploads my pictures to a private folder online. Many times, I have come back from long hikes but the pictures remain in my slr for a few days because I was too lazy/tired to upload my pictures from the SD card to the computer. Having this functionality to automatically upload your pictures once you get home would be nice.
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CrazedGeek 5057 days ago
Eye-Fi[1]'s Wi-Fi enabled SD cards already do this, and it's beautiful. Only downsides are cost and that you have to turn the camera on once you get home.

[1] http://www.eye.fi/

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miahi 5057 days ago
For the "antisocial", you can do the same with Dropbox.
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esolyt 5057 days ago
In fact, I prefer Dropbox's Camera Upload. With Dropbox, when I go home and sit in front of my computer, I find my photos as actual files existing on my computer. Google, on the other hand, is trying to make it very convenient to share them on Google+ and very inconvenient to download and store them locally. They don't even sync it to Google Drive as files. They are trying to eliminate the concept of "file" from the users' mind, just like Apple.
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