Digital Photo Frame Company Nixplay Slashes Free Cloud Storage From 10GB To 500MB 20
Nixplay has dramatically reduced its free cloud storage offering for digital photo frame users from the original 10GB to just 500MB. The previously announced update, which took effect last week, also removed the formerly free ability to sync Google Photos albums. Users whose accounts already exceed the new 500MB limit will find their content "restricted from sharing or viewing" unless they edit their library or purchase a subscription. Nixplay now offers two paid tiers: Nixplay Lite at $19.99 annually for 100GB storage and Nixplay Plus at $29.99 yearly for unlimited storage.
Buy cloud connected product.. (Score:2)
.. and wait for the inevitable request for money.
No thanks.. I will just buy products that are not cloud connected.
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If only RMS had warned us about this in 2008. Oh wait, he did https://www.theguardian.com/te... [theguardian.com]
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It is entertaining how he still thinks he created an operating system. I'll never understand the toejam eating mentality.
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No thanks.. I will just buy products that are not cloud connected.
I don't mind - if it's my choice to cloud or self host. I'll choose self host because I don't want a "forever landlord" after I buy the house.
Textbook enshittification (Score:3)
Ignorance everywhere (Score:2)
TANSTAAFL.
If they're providing something for free it's either a temporary inducement to purchase or they're profiting off your use of it.
A digital photo frame that connects to an an arbitrary mail or FTP account is fine, but if you think you want it connecting to a vendor-supplied account you will certainly change your mind at some point.
The cloud ... (Score:4, Informative)
... is not your friend. Pass it along.
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The rain cloud is my friend, most of the time now.
no USB or SD Card slot in the frames, 720p! (Score:2)
Maybe it is easy to use - but how easy is it when you have to keep paying to use it.
Something for grandma perhaps, oh wait, today's grandma can computer.
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A budget tablet is just crazy talk. How are our frenemies going to jam ads down our throat if we disconnect from the mothership?
My wife likes to do the family slide show thing when we've got family visiting around the holidays. We bought a couple of cheap-o 1080P android tablets from Walmart and use a simple slide show program and all the images stored on an SD card. No cloud and no network required.
Easy peasy.
Louis Rossman (Score:3)
Louis Rossman has made [youtube.com] a couple of videos [youtube.com] about this already. I can't wait for Part 3.
Stop accepting changing the terms after the sale has been made.
Hack it (Score:3)
This is probably only useful to a tiny fraction of "owners", but apparently the frame is basically a locked down tablet with no touchscreen. It has a USB port inside that will respond to the Android debugged (ADB).
So shut down the captive app and install something else that lets you decide where the storage is.
video here. [youtube.com]
drug dealers (Score:1)
Free ridering patrons (Score:2)
"Fall" knowingly for "free", then complain loudly when the promotion ends, just as you move onto the next one.
I Am Altering The Deal (Score:2)
And praying the class action is cheaper than S3.
So they nixed the play? (Score:1)
Could they have chosen a more (in)appropriate name, given this action? Sigh.
I'm in the market (Score:2)
For free space. Give me some options