Post #1692087

2026-03-29 18:10 UTC

@atpfm I know I’m whining to the choir here, but does nobody at Apple vacation with people they want to share photos with who aren’t family? Family sharing is fine for me and my wife but we’re vacationing with another family. We can iMessage each other but that quality is degraded and it’s kind of a hassle. Shared photo album? Same degraded quality. I wouldn’t think too much about it if Apple didn’t love service revenue so much. Why do they leave all this revenue on the table?

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@fedward@distraction.party 2026-03-29 19:53

@donw@mastodon.coffee @atpfm@mastodon.social Apple believes very strongly in its own infallibility. They can't admit they have problems, and you can't fix problems you don't admit you have. They're missing incentives, too. You'd think that maybe they'd learn if people stopped paying for iCloud, but I'd bet that they have numbers showing that people never stop paying for iCloud once they start. Why bother spending money to fix or improve something when people are just going to keep paying you for it even if it sucks?

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@samerfarha@mastodon.social 2026-03-30 20:07

@donw@mastodon.coffee what’s the issue with shared photo albums? I’ve used them and they seemed fine. (But my needs literally amount to “here’s some pictures we can all share in one place”)

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