One of the crucial irritating realities about fashionable expertise merchandise is that whereas so a lot of them can get thrilling new options by way of the web, they will lose them simply as simply. That occurred to homeowners of Nixplay sensible digital photograph frames this week once they had been hit with a previously announced replace the corporate stated would “take away premium options and cut back limits,” together with dropping cloud photograph and video storage to simply 500MB.
Nixplay has supplied free cloud storage for a very long time — right here’s a 2016 PCMag review that mentions an 8-inch body that got here with 10GB of house for no additional cost. Along with dropping increased storage limits, the corporate has additionally nixed the previously free ability to sync a single Google Images album. The corporate’s announcement stated that these whose present free accounts already exceed the brand new 500MB restrict would see some content material “restricted from sharing or viewing on a body with out enhancing your content material or upgrading your subscription.”
Individuals on the Nixplay subreddit aren’t completely satisfied concerning the change, with posts complaining concerning the modifications affecting existing customers somewhat than solely new ones or calling it a scam. One consumer’s begrudging post says they’ll subscribe, however that they’re solely doing so as a result of they’ve accrued “a number of thousand photographs within the cloud” and don’t wish to educate their companion, who hates computer systems, learn how to use a brand new app.
Nixplay’s paid subscriptions value both $19.99 a 12 months for 100GB of photograph storage (Nixplay Lite) or $29.99 per 12 months for limitless photograph storage (Nixplay Plus). Each tiers additionally embody the flexibility to sync with Google Photos, though it’s not clear if that function works the identical because it did earlier than, given a current change Google made that broke how many digital frames sync with its photographs service.