Yeah, it's hard to disagree with that assessment. :( I mean, there's often pretty strict rules in place about what can be talked about when it comes to future plans, especially at a publicly traded company, but in those cases it gets mitigated somewhat by more emphasis on other communication, on frequent updates, on smooth upgrade paths, etc. - so that even if as an employee you aren't allowed to talk about the future, your users can put two and two together or at least feel assured because there is a healthy and thriving developer community.
The turn down of the Picasa API would be tolerable if we had some indication that an actual Google Photos API somewhat imminent - heck, it'd be helpful just to know if an API is in fact coming at all. Anyway, have you been pretty happy with Amazon Prime Photos so far? At this point I've narrowed my search for an alternative to that and Flickr - I've crossed off the list anything that is /too/ tied to a particular ecosystem (e.g. stuff from Apple or MSFT), anything too small/obscure, Dropbox wasn't a good fit for my particular case, and I stopped looking at a couple of others that were focused more on just on cloud storage/backup and had little in terms of photo/video-related features, so barring any other discoveries I'm down to Amazon and Flickr. Flickr's API, feature set, and device integration all seem decent enough, although I'm still at the beginning stages of a test integration so time will tell. On the negative side, you can't seem to get more than 1 TB of storage or have videos more than a couple of minutes long (although I'm not sure either will be an issue for my use case so maybe not a big deal). As far as Amazon goes, I've been an AWS user for ages but don't think that's particularly relevant and all I've done so far is skim through some of the Prime Photos docs so I'd be curious to hear your experience. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
