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by jmathai 3751 days ago
Dropbox's recent gamble and failure with Carousel has to be a big blow. Especially considering how successful Google Photos has been so far.

When they launched Carousel I had hopes that they'd really capture the market [1]. But nearly 2 years later I think Google ended up out Carouseling Dropbox [2].

[1] https://medium.com/@jmathai/thoughts-on-dropbox-carousel-e5a...

[2] https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin...

1 comments

Google Photos is so far and away technically superior that Carousel just got out-competed. I was a Carousel user (after Adobe Revel and a bunch of other "store them all here for one price" services) and none had caused the fundamental shift in photo storage thinking (for me) that Google Photos does.

I just wish they'd charge me something. Free services scare me (yes I know they're data mining my photos).

I pay for Google Drive where my Google Photos are stored. They probably still mine my data, I'm sure.