There’s another UX revolution happening in terms of saving information. Well, iCloud Photos “optimize storage” means that you can effectively store infinite screenshots. It’s like how Gmail “archive” feature in 2005 revolutionized email because you never had to delete an email. Trying to find a picture of a cat you saved? Type in ”cat” and search for it. Took a screenshot of an article, remember 1 or 2 words from it, but can’t find it on Google? Search for those 1-2 words you remember to find the screenshot, then use the phrases in the screenshot to find the article on google. Forgot the name of a restaurant you went to, but remember that you took a picture of the menu and the beef dish was amazing? Search up the word “beef” and it’s probably in there. You can search up anything from an image now. The people who discovered this, put this to use immediately. The sheer boring-ness of this by tech people standards meant that this iOS UI change went under the radar. And then a search engine on those strings, yeah cool, nothing too mind blowing”. Cool, that’s 2000 or 2010 era fancy tech, boring these days. If you’re a typical tech person, you probably look at this, go “oh, iOS Photos now OCRs every photo. I really want to emphasize how insane this situation is, because I think most tech people won’t realize what’s happening unless it’s pointed out. It's a good idea if i want to find a meme that I saw, a need that I don't think will disappear anytime and that's also not a millennial+ only problem. I've stumbled some times into "meme dumps" where they upload all their memes to a service to free space on their device/icloud.įor sure teens use technology in ways that might be unexpected and counter-intuitive to us, but I don't think that invalidates in the slightly the need of a global search engine for memes. We have no idea where all this collected data from teens will be in 15 years, it's not unlikely that it will be lost or archived in hard to reach places and forgotten. You can be sure that if i remember any of those contents I won't dig up my hard drive, but google them (use a comprehensive global search engine). Now i'm not even sure where they are, probably in some hard drive in some closet. In 2008 I had folders upon folders of images downloaded from the internet. Guess what? She was sad a while ago because somehow she lost access to one of this accounts and so to all those pictures/videos.Īlso the fact that some teens save a lot of pics on their devices doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things. All those memories were recorded in app and never saved in the device, only stored as stories on the account. My cousin had an instagram account for close friends (5 people) where she only shared bad things that happened to her during the day. You know that some teens don't even save some images? They store them on specific instagram accounts they make for a specific category. I'm sure "meme collecting" is a common practice among many teens, but I don't think it means that every teen saves all meme/images they encounter. Your cousin and your friends don't care about that, not sure if it applies to all kids worldwide honestly. Ordinary people now have access to software that treats text as a first class citizen in photos by default. This seems sort of obvious to anyone in tech, but I realized that from a clueless grandma perspective, not being able to search up text in photos wasn’t really obvious. This is because looking back, the past few decades of CS cultural intuition have established that text are text, and images are images. And I felt extremely old today, reading this article. I felt extremely old yesterday when I was talking to my cousin. This is a solved problem already, by teenager standards. I saved it in my iPhone photos app… and found it again through the search function in the photos app. This article uses an example meme with the text “Sorry young man But the armband (red) stays on during solo raids”. And kids all seem to know about this, apparently. This whole article is literally already built into iOS UI, not just a hidden API. Her response was along the lines of “yeah, everyone nowadays just saves the image to your iPhone photos, and then just search for it later from the photos app”. But by total coincidence, yesterday I had a conversation with my 14 year old cousin on the topic of saving memes. I’m around age 30, not 13, so similar to the article, my first instinct was also to create a database and OCR the image. It’s not even the most convenient option. Am I the only one who talks to Gen Z kids who explore around their iPhone apps? This definitely isn’t the best option given price requirements. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills in this thread.
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