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Originally Posted by GlennD
There's already a solution in place for transferring images - iCloud. Apple's vision is all about your data existing in one place so that no matter what device is in your hand you have access to it. Sneaker-net (transferring by hand via SD card) is SO ten years ago.
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A single RAW file from my DSLR is about 25-30 megabytes. My home Internet connection is 3 megabits per seconds down, 600 kilobits per second up. Even if my camera could somehow upload to iCloud, transferring a single RAW file from the camera to my phone via iCloud would take 400 seconds, or almost seven minutes.
Even at the absolute maximum theoretical LTE speed possible, it would still take something like fifteen seconds, and would use a big, big chunk of your cellular data allowance for the month, too.
Apple's vision of a wireless world is a beautiful vision, but unfortunately, it is based on ivory-tower thinking that can't actually work in the real world. The cloud is not a substitute for local storage, and cannot possibly be a substitute for local storage in the near term or even medium term, simply because we don't have gigabit fiber to the curb, and we don't have 8G cellular networks or whatever.
Anybody who says otherwise hasn't watched as the photographs from a single photo shoot saturated their DSL connection's uplink for 2 weeks straight.
DSLR photos are big. Really big.