New icloud photo Service due to shortage responsible team

According to foreign media reports, according to people familiar with the situation, Apple's new photo backup and synchronization service icloud Photo Library is now facing the embarrassment of "Dystocia"-the first beta version of the product was actually a lot later than the original plan, but because the internal supporting infrastructure is not in place, The official version of the market Time I'm afraid to continue to postpone

The predecessor of the ICloud Photo Library, Photo Stream, is a photo backup and synchronization service based on the iCloud of the Apple cloud storage platform.

The ICloud Photo Library is a continuation of the Hyperion Development Plan, established by founder Steve Jobs. But while the product has been postponed, the functionality and experience still lag behind Jobs ' original vision.

The current icloud Photo library is still in beta testing, and its official version will be forced to continue due to problems with Apple's internal infrastructure.

"Apple lacks an in-house team to manage the core cloud," people familiar with the matter said. "Apple developers are almost entirely on their own to do all the development work." There is not even a product manager within the company responsible for the entire icloud Photo library project. ”

As scheduled, the desktop version of the icloud Photo Library will be launched in sync with OS X's Yosemite system. But on the day the new system was officially on the shelves, the product was not ready. The desktop version of icloud Photo Library has now been postponed until early 2015, according to the official statement.

The iOS version of icloud Photo Library should also be rolled out in September this year with iOS 8. But Apple only took out the beta version and offered it only to those who were willing to taste it. The official version was until October, with iOS 8.1.

This month, the Web page version of the icloud Photo Library was finally updated. Users can now upload photos to photo gallery via icloud.com. But it seems that the service is also a beta version, except. JPG file format, ICloud Photo Library does not support other types of photo uploads.