Google Photos director Anil Sabharwal announces Google Photos during the 2015 Google I/O conference on Thursday in San Francisco. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
The race to fix everyone's digital photo libraries is officially on. This week, at its annual developer conference I/O, Google unveiled Google Photos, a free app for iOS, Android and the Web for organizing and storing online all of your photos. And by "all," they mean everything; the company is offering unlimited online storage space for all users. High-resolution photos would be stored on Google, while print-quality, smaller versions would be stored on local devices such as computers or smartphones.
Google said in a blog post announcing the new software that it will be easy to share these photos or groups of photos publicly on social media services as well as privately with family members and friends. The move comes shortly after Apple introduced "Photos," desktop Mac software also seeking to solve the digital photo organizing problem. Apple has also tried to make it easier to access photos across multiple devices. Google Photos appears to be the result of years of testing photo features on software such as Google's Picasa and on the social network Google+.
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