Apple’s iCloud service has been nagging me to expand my online storage, for mine is down to a mere 100MB, mainly taken up by pictures on my iPhone. Thousands of them. The company must be of the firm belief that the past seven years of photos are worth preserving for posterity. I am not convinced. Purveyors of extra data services are not as clear-eyed as the photography critic.Scrolling back, I wonder what I was doing. Family photos are fair enough, capturing the generations as they change. Events too. They only happen once. But what are all these photographs of buildings and landscapes from summer holidays, so forgettable I’d even forgotten I’d taken them?
苹果(Apple)的iCloud服务老是提示我扩大在线存储空间，因为我的空间只剩100兆了——主要被我的iPhone照片占据。照片有成千上万张。该公司一定坚信过去7年的照片值得留给子孙后代。但我不这么认为。额外数据服务提供商的眼光并不像摄影评论家那样犀利。