[gcr]

How does this compare to Carousel, Dropbox's photo backup offering from last year?

https://carousel.dropbox.com/

Carousel is great as long as you have enough Dropbox space for your photos. Anecdotally, I find I could trust Dropbox's backup model more than Apple's because I understand it better.

[comex]

Apple's solution has the advantage of working with every app that reads from or writes to the camera roll - i.e. photos are downloaded on demand, and uploaded when taken - rather than only a single manager app. Of course, this is an unfair comparison, since third parties are not allowed to hook that deeply into iOS, but it is what it is.

[microtonal]

On the other hand, Carousel uploads are in Dropbox, automatically syncing to laptops and desktops, giving direct access to any application.

[hjnilsson]

Well, Photos is a photo management & editing solution in addition to being a photo backup. While Carousel is only a photo backup solution (no albums, no editing controls). So it's not really comparable.

[microtonal]

Carousel does have albums:

https://carousel.dropbox.com/help/7475

More annoying is the lack of Chromecast support :).