Amazon Cloud Drive: Prime Photos

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Amazon has a history of creating web applications (I'm thinking about their MP3 cloud drive) and then seemingly abandoning all further development. Either they have small teams of developers that move from project to project, or it is outsourced.

I'm not confident in Amazon's long term approach to these products.

I'm a advanced-amateur photographer and half of my photos are RAW format, not JPG's. I'll be surprised if this offering supports any format besides JPG.

According to http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... it supports several raw and lossless formats, up to 2GB.

Amazon tries so hard to add more Prime benefits to get me to sign up for Prime, but I just don't care about any of them.

Google Shopping Express is faster than Amazon, and that's the only Prime benefit I care about. For movies, Netflix is better. For music, all any other streaming service is better. For Prime Lending Club, too few books are actually available for lending to make it a worthy benefit. And now for photos, Google Photos is a better product.

Google Photos requires Google Plus. I do not want it. Google Shopping Express availability is very limited (nor available in my area, for example).

Agree with Netflix, but Amazon Videos has more videos. Eight out of ten, videos not found on Netflix were available for rent on Amazon.

A good move of Amazon to aggregate more value to his Amazon Prime, but when I think in storage I think in Dropbox. I know that is no the cheaper, not the faster, but it works incredible well and it's the main focus of the company.

I can hardly wait for whed Dropbox come cheap and Unlimited.

PS: today, my several TBs of backups are in Amazon Glacier (USD 0,01/GB)

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