Digital photo frame company Nixplay cut its free cloud storage to almost nothing

is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. One of the most frustrating realities about modern technology products is that while so many of them can get exciting new features via the internet, they can lose them just as easily. That happened to owners of Nixplay smart digital photo frames this week when they were hit with a previously announced update the company said would “remove premium features and reduce limits,” including dropping cloud photo and video storage to just 500MB. Nixplay has offered free cloud storage for a long time — here’s a 2016 PCMag review that mentions an 8-inch frame that came with 10GB of space for no extra charge. In addition to losing higher storage limits, the company has also nixed the previously free ability to sync a single Google Photos album. The company’s announcement said that those whose existing free accounts already exceed the new 500MB limit would ... Read full article.