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This isn't even an Apple specific use-case.

There's real opportunity for Dropbox (if they stopped syncing everything everywhere), or Flickr (if they suddenly made really great native clients) to sew this up.

Google probably hasn't a chance in hell given the neglect that they're showing to Picasa.

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Isn't Google+ pretty good for photos? You can even auto-sync photos to it. In fact it was one of the very first to do it, long before Dropbox and iCloud.

Google+'s photo sharing/storing system is great. Unfortunately, right now you have to use a third-party app if you want your G+ Instant Upload album to automatically sync to a Google Drive folder. I'm surprised Google hasn't added this feature yet. Perhaps they are intentionally refraining in order to try to induce people to share on G+?

I think it is the best design. I don't even think about uploading or sharing photo's. They're just there! Plus, set it to Wifi only and you'll not waste your precious 3/4G's.

Google probably hasn't a chance in hell given the neglect that they're showing to Picasa.

Ironically enough, none of the ones you suggest handles this well yet, but this is already handled decently enough via your one rejected candidate: Google+/Picasa sync on Android.

With Picasa support for Linux dropped (what do Googlers with Goobuntu do?), this remains unsolved for me.

I never used Picasa on Windows nor Linux, but all the pictures are available via Picasa Web as well, and you can download full albums there.

Not a full on sync solution with client-PCs, but you do get access to the pictures (via the web) which means you don't get locked in like people using Apple-stuff.

And picasaweb.google.com now redirects to Google+ Pictures.

You can still get them all from Google Takeout: https://www.google.com/takeout/?pli=1#custom:picasa

I wasn't criticising, I like Google+ Pictures since they're all private by default, but sharing is even easier than it was with picasaweb.

Dropbox definitely knows about it.

https://www.dropbox.com/features/photos

> Dropbox (if they stopped syncing everything everywhere)

Dropbox has offered selective sync for a while now.

Flickr's new client is pretty bad all-around. I wouldn't bet on them to get it right, much as I would.

"Dropbox (if they stopped syncing everything everywhere)" THIS.

They do offer selective sync which can be configured on a folder level in the settings. I've been using this for a while now to save space on device like the MBA with limited space on solid state drives.

It's not the same, if you don't sync the folder then you can't easily add to it or view the contents? On mobile you can add and view files in unsynced folders easily - they just download on demand.

Selective sync as in I'm syncing one folder at ~/a/b/c, another at ~/g/h/j and at /whatever/ etc etc?

I have a Dell Mini with a tiny SSD, and I use selective sync to only sync my Documents folder. I then symlinked ~/Documents to ~/Dropbox/Documents. It works quite nicely. (and I do sync a few other folders, this is just an example)

As in on device X don't sync folder Y. If you have a photos folder with 100GB of images you can set it so that your MacBook Air does not sync that folder but does get your other Dropbox folders.

I'm pretty sure SpiderOak offers this feature, as well as an option to not sync specific folders on specific computers.

It has recently become popular on HN to write "this" as if it is a complete thought. I don't understand this usage of "this". Can someone enlighten me?

"This" when used by itself means the poster agrees with a parent poster; it's an obnoxious upvote really. "This" when used with a preceding quote means that the poster agrees with the quote in particular. Such usage is more of an upvote for select part of the comment.

Not to get too meta but I've seen it a lot on Reddit and essentially someone is trying to say the thought was so completely expressed that they just need to suggest "This" as it is exactly how they feel as well.

Can be read as, "I agree with this."

I think UbuntuOne already solves all those problems.

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