As to when that commercial service might actually be ready, one former Virgin Galactic employee told Newsnight: "I can't say whether it will be two years or whether it will be five... They have a huge, huge, way to go."
So is this quote from Doug Messier, quoted in the article:
"This program's claimed four lives already and it's had four powered flights and they haven't gotten anywhere near space in 10 years."
When summed up, as Messier does, Virgin Galactic's effort sure sounds disappointing.
Selective much? You missed the sentance before:
You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
and particularly the sentance immediately after:
The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones.
So no, they can't do anything they like with your content. Worst they can do is use it in an ad for the Photos service, or use it in a training dataset.
Android File Transfer *is* an MTP implementation. OSX, at least older versions, did not support MTP naively.
Google's offering unlimited storage of 16MP images and smaller. For most consumers that's all they need, though professionals will still want to back up their larger & raw files themselves of course. 1080p video is now unlimited too.
The categorization that Google is doing uses image recognition that goes a fair ways beyond any photo management software you can run yourself, but again likely won't be flexible enough for pro users.
The "unlimited" part isn't actually new, BTW. Google have been storing unlimited photos and video for a while now, but the size limits were 2MP and 15 minute clips, previously. This is much more useful for the average person.
As this story has been submitted several times in the past several days, by various submitter and is going around various other tech forums( https://news.ycombinator.com/i... , https://soylentnews.org/articl... , https://www.reddit.com/r/progr...
The system was down for backups from 5am to 10am last Saturday.