Digital Photo Frame Company Nixplay Slashes Free Cloud Storage From 10GB To 500MB 28
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:4, Insightful)
.. and wait for the inevitable request for money.
No thanks.. I will just buy products that are not cloud connected.
Re:Buy cloud connected product.. (Score:4, Informative)
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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As have many others that are more credible.
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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:5, 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:3)
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.
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They Are Altering The Deal, Pray They Don't Alter it Any Further.
*insert rasping breath sounds*
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If you are in the UK (and probably much of Europe) then return it. It broke, the terms on which it was sold are no longer acceptable and it is no longer as described.
It all it is the retailer that has deal with the return. Don't let them palm it off onto the manufacturer, they have to deal with it. If they are unwilling to pay for lifetime cloud subscription for you, they take it back.
Hack it (Score:5, Informative)
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.
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Network Nixplay Nixes NAS Numbers
I'm in the market (Score:2)
For free space. Give me some options
I'm shocked! (Score:3)
Yet another object lesson about what happens when you forget "The Cloud" is just other people's computers. After you're buried balls deep in their system, with no warning, Nixplay cuts you back from 10 GB to 500 MB. If you were close to the upper end of that limit, you'll probably wind up forking out twenty bucks a year for their 100 GB storage option, even if it's only for enough time to make other arrangements. Meanwhile, you can get a 1 TB USB 3.0 external hard drive on Amazon delivered to your doorstep for $35. So after only a year and a half, you're ahead of the game. You're going to get a lot more than a couple of years out of a hard drive, too, and your photos are under your own control.
The reason everybody wants you to commit to "The Cloud" for your needs is because it gives them very real control over you and your money. If they don't get their monthly payoff, no matter the reason, you're screwed.
I have no more fucks to give for people who lose photos or records or anything else because they chose The Cloud and didn't have everything perfectly backed up when the real owners of their data decided to unilaterally change the terms of the arrangement.
This is one of the reasons... (Score:2)
Kodak frame (Score:2)
Cloud (Score:2)
"Sorry, you have to pay monthly if you want to have your own pictures showing on the wall"
Imagine explaining that to previous generations.
I'm still waiting for the inevitable large-scale cloud compromise that will finally make people question their stupidity and start steering them back to local systems again.
It's all just a cycle but this is one particularly long-running step in that cycle at the moment.
Consolidate. Distribute. Thin client. Fat client. etc. etc.
It comes in waves, every 10 years of so,
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It's all just a cycle but this is one particularly long-running step in that cycle at the moment.
The reason i'ts a long-step is because the cloud-based apps have added a certain level of ease of use.
Such as easier sharing of files or items. Easier transfer of files to/from the mobile device. Easier control from the App with minimal configuration.
The someone else's server handles a lot of the configurations automatically within the mobile app that you would have to manually perform if you were setting