re: icloud photo sharing

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Just install Google photos on your iPhone and you'll be a billion times happier with the cloud features

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Let me tell you the main feature that I like about Photos, and you can tell me if Google can meet or exceed it:

Photos backs up the complete version of the image to iCloud while keeping older photos on your devices in a thumbnail size to save space.

That feature alone has kept me from buying a new computer or dumping most of my photos onto an external HDD. I will say that I felt that iPhotos was easier to keep organized, but some of that has been due to the way my pictures are now shared automatically between devices. I used to dump photos from my phone and organize them, but they are now instantly sent to my computer over iCloud. This seems to now cause a lot of pictures to get lost in the fray over time, and can make it harder to find things that aren't put into albums.