Google Photos Trialing Monthly Subscription To Get Your Best Pictures Auto-Printed

Google Photos is now trialing a "monthly photo prints" subscription program where the company will send you 10 prints that will be "automatically selected from your last 30 days of photos." 9to5Gogole reports: This subscription program is a way to "get your best memories delivered straight to your home every month." For $7.99 per month, subscribers get 4x6 pictures printed on matte, white cardstock that features a 1/8-inch border. While an automatic process leverages Google Photos' smarts, you'll be able to pick one of three themes for your monthly prints. Google touts the first "people and pets" option as being the "most popular." Additionally, you can edit the photos before they're printed.

Delivered in a cardboard envelope, Google imagines these prints as being "perfect to put on the fridge, in a frame, or to give as gifts to the important." Similar to efforts with Smart Displays, this program adds an interesting tactility to images that most people only experience virtually today. Currently, this Google Photos print subscription is classified as a "trial program" in the US. Those selected will see a "You're invited to the monthly photo prints trial" banner to join at the top of Google Photos on the web.

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[thegarbz]

trial a service that forces BeauHD to check for dups?

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[account_deleted]

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[Aighearach]

I could care less if you were drownding while looking for the proof that's in the pudding.

I guy tried that in my town last week, he refused rescue for quite awhile before he found the proof he needed; the pudding was fucking cold. Then he shouted for help, and they pulled him onto the fire boat.

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[JustAnotherOldGuy]

But 'trialing' is a perfectly cromulent word!

Holy crap /.

[scdeimos]

Come on editors, this story was barely off the front page and you produced a dupe: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]

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[MancunianMaskMan]

it's only a dupe if both are on the front page at the same time. Bonus points for subsequent ones.

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[thegarbz]

this story was barely off the front page

Sounds like an improvement over their normal dups.

Had to cancel

[Waffle Iron]

The service made me too sad to keep using it: Google kept mailing me old photos of my dearly departed wife, Loretta.

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[Aighearach]

I just hope their AI training set includes my favorite Facebook group: Crap Bird Photograpy.

A service looking for a user

[Opportunist]

Ok, maybe someone can clue me in because I'm at a loss here. Ever since I read this here the first time, even. Who is the target audience for that?

They mail you 10 randomly selected (sorry, "AI curated") photos that I took the last 30 days. For a price that is beyond ridiculous. Who wants that?

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[weilawei]

It's secretly an AI-produced business idea.

Only it works mostly like Mad Libs.

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[nukenerd]

They mail you 10 randomly selected ... photos that I took the last 30 days. For a price that is beyond ridiculous. Who wants that?

Hipsters

Re:Google's new motto

[d3bruts1d]

"If we bill it, they will come." ...and... "If we cannot monetize it even if it is a good service, shut it down in a few months."

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[Registered Coward v2]

I’m with you. I can get a picture of my choice printed for 10 cents and have it in an hour or less; without letting Google analyze all my prints. I do use Google to store them, although they are encrypted first so they have no idea what they are.

This probably depends on how you use Google photos

[jawtheshark]

This probably depends on how you use Google photos: I can see several use-cases for Google Photo. For example: backup, even on the free plan with reduced quality and size (their words, not mine. I don't see much difference), you would still have your pictures should something happen to your phone.

Then there are users like me: My phone is backed up to iCloud already, and the reason I have for Google photos is to quickly get photos (could be anything from a family picture to a serial number of a device) to

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[Way Smarter Than You]

1: this is a dupe. 2: there is no use case. 3: it is way too expensive. 4: no one has a use for this. 5: everyone involved in this stupid idea needs to be fired. 6: this is a dupe. 7: are you fucking kidding me with this shit? 8: this is a dupe. 9: there is a 9 but it is a tightly held industrial secret.

Dick pics

[SoundGuyNoise]

Now you can pay to get your own unsolicited dick pics.

$7.99 for 10 pictures

[account 123]

I wonder how these prices are set. "I mean, it's one banana. How much could it cost? Ten dollars?"

No thanks

[Pimpy]

I can already print off of my smartphone at my local apothecary with high-quality prints at 25 cents each, with lower quality prints (still ok for framing) at 7 cents each. With this sort of markup, Google is laughing all the way to the bank.

Deja vu?

[Darth Maul]

All over again..

Stupid shit for $8/month!

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Really?

I could close my eyes and pick photos at random and not have to pay $96 a year for it. This is one of the stupidest money-sinks I've ever heard of. Hats off to Google for finding another way to take money out of sucker's pockets.

The real question is will it pick random photos from someone else's library [slashdot.org] and send them to me?