Google did say that the compression it uses to reduce file size retains the picture quality almost identical. For original pictures Google offers 15 gigabytes of Drive space for free.
This sounds interesting.
Now the rant.
"Google's one of the biggest announcements at Google I/O was the new photo cloud service that it calls Photos ‐ naturally."
This is improper wording. It should read either:
"One of Google's biggest announcements at Google I/O was the new photo cloud service that it calls Photos ‐ naturally."
Or:
"One of the biggest announcements by Google at Google I/O was the new photo cloud service that it calls Photos ‐ naturally."
Please correct.
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The Syntax Socialist
I wouldn't even consider it for anything that I wouldn't happily post in public for all (even identity thieves) to see...but it might be a boon for forums. What is worse than having to login to some crummy third party site to see images in a thread? Those images being gone due to the service deleting them after a given amount of time, or refusing to show them because too many other people have seen them this week.
I have always been skeptical of anything cloud based! It is very hard for me to trust having my files, music or memories in "the cloud" no matter what company offers it! Besides, I protect my data as good, if not better than, any of them!