Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Google Photos’ Unlimited Free Storage Could Clobber Apple’s Expensive iCloud

How much does a terabyte of photo storage cost? On iCloud, $240 a year. Dropbox, $100. Microsoft OneDrive, $84.

Google, $0. It’s free on desktop, Android, and iOS.

Today, Google announced its new Google Photos product, which offers unlimited free storage of photos and videos. The only limits are that photos must be under 16 megapixels, and video resolution is capped at 1080P.

If the photos and videos are bigger, Google will compress them, but says the visual quality is virtually untouched. With auto-backup from its iOS and Android apps, you can forget worrying about saving your photos, and you can forget paying to store them.
Read More: http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/28/free-dollars-and-fifty-free-cents
Related Article: Google seeks new disks for data centers

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