As part of my move to the new iPhone and looking at ditching Google for as much of my cloud services as possible, I spent a few hours last night downloading photos out of Google Photos and importing them into the new Photos app on the mac.

Well, what a difference the Photos app is compared to the old iPhotos app. Photos has totally grown up, the infrastructure is really logically from albums, folders, moments and events. Next I noticed it doesn’t create a brand new folder directory for imported photos. Finally. Then there is all the editing features that mirror the iPhone and iPad apps.

By turning on iCloud syncing, any photo edits done on the iPhone or iPad will be mirrored on my MacBook.

Sounds really good to me.