zleap, 10 months ago

@gerrymcgovern

Interesting stats, thank you.

tomw, 10 months ago

@gerrymcgovern Not convinced by this... People do all sorts of useless things and store all sorts of useless data on phones/computers/the cloud, photos is one of the last things I would pick on

gerrymcgovern, 10 months ago

@tomw that’s the problem though. You could easily pick 100 other useless things we do with data. Data growth is out of control and 90% of it is crap.

tomw, 10 months ago

@gerrymcgovern Yes, but you are asserting (or at least implying) a particular problem with the growth of photo data, while I am saying that out of all the crap people store, photos are some of the least useless

gerrymcgovern, 10 months ago

@tomw possibly. But it’s still a system of a deeper problem. We create far too much stuff, much of which is waste, and we don’t clean up after ourselves.

DJDarren, 10 months ago

LB: Is a subtoot reminding me that I really need to get around to deleting a load of screenshots and crappy photos that are causing my iCloud photo back up to be 20gb.