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Apple demos iCloud photo-stream

2011-06-06
this next one is maybe my favorite one and it's called photostream and it's going to bring the cloud to photos how many times have you taken photos on her iPhone maybe of our kids in the afternoon and wanted when we got home to share them on an iPad and have to go through the process of moving them over wouldn't it be great if by the time I got home they were already there on the iPad well that's what photo stream is going to do for us across all of our devices so again I take photos on any device puts it in the camera roll and that will be automatically uploaded to the cloud where it's stored and automatically downloaded to all my other devices including in this case a Mac and so I've got my photos on my iPad just waiting for me when I get home now in addition I can import photos I didn't do iPhoto as an example on the Mac it'll upload those to the cloud and do exactly the same thing with them by pushing them down to all my other devices so it's apps that I its photos that I take or photos that I import and we built this right into the apps I hope you've seen that as we've gone through this we've built this right into the app so there's nothing new to learn so photo stream on the iPads photo app we've built it right in and right next to albums we have a button called Photo Stream you push it and you're looking at the photo stream it's that simple there's not a separate app that you have to go learn it's right there in your Photos app it's right there in your Photos app on your iPhone it's just right there with all your other albums there you go photo stream on the Mac on the Mac we built it right into iPhoto and so it's right there on the side your photo stream and on a PC they don't have a Photos app so we use the pictures folder right in addition to that we've even built it in to Apple TV so Apple TV Apple TV talks directly over to the internet directly to the photo stream servers doesn't even go through your PC talks directly the photo stream servers so you can watch the photos right on your Apple TV so one of the problems we faced was that will photos are large and will use up all the memory on your devices there are also large they'll consume vast amounts of storage in our server farms so we've came up with a great scheme we're gonna store photos on your devices we're gonna store the last thousand photos right let's store the last thousand and any photos you want to keep permanently just move them into an album and they'll stay forever but they'll be parading by you the last thousand photographs on your Mac or PC because we have more storage will store all of them you can get rid of them by just deleting them but we'll store all of them and on the server will store them for 30 days which is more than enough time for all your devices to connect and automatically download those photos so we think we've got a great system here that's gonna move our photos around among all of our devices even Apple TV so that when I take a photo anywhere I can view it on all my other devices
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