Hasn't Google+ done this for quite some time now? I think at 2048 x 2048 you can store unlimited photos. Odd that it wasn't one of the comparisons in the article anyway.
Lots of people saying Google or Microsoft has 'done this'.. Well yes and no in my personal opinion. The devil is definitely in the details and if you are like me you find the existing services frustrating in their own way. (I'm none too optimistic about Apples solution either given I'm only partly 'iDevice' compatible).
I don't want to sync my collection (have a backup in the cloud) I want to have the actual backup elsewhere and keep only a small cache of photos locally. My laptop SSD and phone are filled up with photos. At the same time I want to be 100% confident that I have the photos somewhere, forever.
Google+ has its own special madness of it seemingly choosing which of my photos it deems worthy and not actually just syncing all of them.. only the ones it likes get 'highlighted' but even clicking into 'more' it seems (I swear I'm not crazy) it only actually syncs are subset of the rest. God knows why. Does not give me confidence in the solution.
Also I want to merge the photostream from multiple photo devices according to time. And I do not want to have to 'share' a post with an album on Google+ just to make some photos public. Grr.
In short none of the existing solutions actually offers that kind of experience, though the thing outlined in the OP is pretty much what I want.
> Google+ has its own special madness of it seemingly choosing which of my photos it deems worthy and not actually just syncing all of them.. only the ones it likes get 'highlighted' but even clicking into 'more' it seems (I swear I'm not crazy) it only actually syncs are subset of the rest. God knows why. Does not give me confidence in the solution.
I don't understand this, are you saying that not all the pictures are synced to the cloud or that you can't see all the pictures synced?
Came here to say the same. Google already does what the article says, and has decent pricing. My only grief with their solution is that the "desktop" viewer is the "Google+ Photos" webapp (part of Google+) that really sucks bigtime for browsing your history of photos. Give it a try and cry.
Apple Photos.app on iPhone is tons better, with their moments, locations, people, search (in iOS8) and whatnot.
Unfortunately, for a lot of tech journalists, until Apple does it -- it hasn't been done.