I pay for Google Photos and you should too if you care about your photos.
I've used Dropbox, Apple Photos and Google Photos.
Google Photos is hands down the best photo application for individuals. Mostly because its face/object/place/whatever recognition is the best of its kind.
Dropbox: they are ignoring the photos needs from users. They focus on "enterprise cloud storage" and "workplace sharing".
Apple: I love the privacy features of Apple, but what I've come to realize is that, with a very big photo library, no iPhone or Macbook can analyze them all and share the results with all my devices. Only a server can analyze 10,000+ pictures, identify faces, organize by date. All in a slick and fast UI.
There's definitely space for Google Photos competitors. Build a product that automatically triage photos, using and sometimes guessing the exif data. With face identification, location identification, automatically creating albums from photos batches (like if you take 40 photos in 2 days).
Managing our online pictures will be extremely important in the future (it is now), because we take more and more of them.
I've used Dropbox, Apple Photos and Google Photos.
Google Photos is hands down the best photo application for individuals. Mostly because its face/object/place/whatever recognition is the best of its kind.
Dropbox: they are ignoring the photos needs from users. They focus on "enterprise cloud storage" and "workplace sharing".
Apple: I love the privacy features of Apple, but what I've come to realize is that, with a very big photo library, no iPhone or Macbook can analyze them all and share the results with all my devices. Only a server can analyze 10,000+ pictures, identify faces, organize by date. All in a slick and fast UI.
There's definitely space for Google Photos competitors. Build a product that automatically triage photos, using and sometimes guessing the exif data. With face identification, location identification, automatically creating albums from photos batches (like if you take 40 photos in 2 days).
Managing our online pictures will be extremely important in the future (it is now), because we take more and more of them.