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Google's photo strategy is so strange. Photos is a great app and has universal appeal - powerful, intuitive editing, easy and smart search, free backup, etc.

Google's photo strategy is so strange. Photos is a great app and has universal appeal - powerful, intuitive editing, easy and smart search, free backup, etc. Snapseed is also one of the best mobile photo editing tools around, certainly the best free one IMHO. My guess is they used the Nik technology in these tools to make the editing and retouching functions work so well, and now they sold it with contingent that they can use it in perpetuity... Here is the weird part -why wouldn't Google merge Snapseed editing with Photos? It would be a killer combination and dominate the consumer space, locking in users to the Goole platform. Isn't that ultimately what they want?. I always assumed Snapseed and Photos would merge one day. Yet, it has never come, and instead Google is empowering others in the space with their tech. Maybe they have "good enough" dominance in the area and don't care anymore? Maybe all they care about is tying users into the Drive platform and Photos is just another funnel that did good enough and can be ignored?

izacus 9y ago
Why would they have to be merged? What would we, most of the users, gain by having a huge bloated gallery app dragging a whole editing software with it? Is installing that other app really such a completely exausting impossible endeavor? What's wrong with tools that do their core feature very well and can share data between them?
- ethanpil 9y ago
  They dont share data well. I cannot select "Edit with SnapSeed" and have it roll back into google photos without getting a second copy of my picture. Would love to see that kind of integration - but they dont even have that.
bitmapbrother 9y ago
I also don't get the need to add additional bloat to an app just to add editing features a very small percentage will ever use. Unfortunately, the number of apps I use that are over 100MB seem to be increasing rather than decreasing.

izacus 9y ago

Why would they have to be merged? What would we, most of the users, gain by having a huge bloated gallery app dragging a whole editing software with it? Is installing that other app really such a completely exausting impossible endeavor? What's wrong with tools that do their core feature very well and can share data between them?

ethanpil 9y ago
They dont share data well. I cannot select "Edit with SnapSeed" and have it roll back into google photos without getting a second copy of my picture. Would love to see that kind of integration - but they dont even have that.

bitmapbrother 9y ago

I also don't get the need to add additional bloat to an app just to add editing features a very small percentage will ever use. Unfortunately, the number of apps I use that are over 100MB seem to be increasing rather than decreasing.