So that if there’s a big event like a Taylor Swift concert you couldn’t go to and they detected you’re most likely a fan, they’ll gen AI a photo of you at the concert
If you missed a Christmas gathering with your family, they’ll gen AI one for you
If like Japan but haven’t been there yet, they gen AI a whole vacation album of you there
They’re literally trying to embed fabricated events into your life and brain lmao
People are largely very excited for this idea. All the apps between different companies constantly copy each other to achieve feature parity, there’s no escape. You will live a life of luxury and excitement whether you want to or not
if it’s just to view your photos on your phone whatever was built in should work fine. if you want to backup to somewhere that’s not google’s servers probably a NAS. I have a Synology and it’s photos app is a google photos replacement.
the problem with Google photos for local storage is that it will occasionally badger me about using their backup and it takes two clicks to clear the message.