Chapter 4. iCloud Photo Library
Over the years, iPhoto got to be pretty creaky and slow, which by itself is reason enough to overhaul the whole thing. But Apple’s work to replace iPhoto with the Photos for OS X app was, I believe, less about modernizing iPhoto’s code and more about making cloud synchronization work.
Here’s the problem: We have thousands of photos, and we also have mobile devices that can’t possibly store them all. Even though we rarely, if ever, need entire libraries on our iPhones, we also don’t like monkeying about with manual syncing.
iCloud Photo Library is Apple’s grand attempt at making all your photos and videos available ...
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