[cannikin]

Dropbox isn't even close to this experience. Yes the files themselves would be everywhere, but I don't want to have to go into the Dropbox app to view my photos (not to mention the Dropbox app being extremely slow in my experience). With iCloud they're all in your regular Photos app ready to be shared or used in other apps just like the photos you shot with your phone.

[agildehaus]

That's more of a problem with iOS than a problem with Dropbox.

[andkon]

"The stock app works the way it should without me having to find another service" is a good thing, not really a problem.

I'm glad Apple's improving their software offerings, because not everything of theirs is "works like it should" good.

[TheDong]

The stock app working well is a good thing.

Not being able to have another app fix issues in the stock app is a problem. If dropbox were able to express an intent to be notified of all photos taken, they could have solved this problem long ago and roughly as well, but they couldn't and so didn't. The problem is not that Apple solved this problem, but that no one else could have due to how apple treats all non-apple apps as second class citizens.

[microtonal]

That's a probably a limitation of iOS. E.g. on my Android phone, I sync photos with Bittorrent sync. I can view them using the gallery app, like any other photo.