At Macworld 2014, Apple showed off not just a new Photos for Mac app, but an entirely new approach to photo and video management. Combined with Photos for iOS 8 and iCloud Photo Library, it promised to store all your visual assets safely up on Apple's servers and make them available across all your devices ?*iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV ? and via iCloud.com on the web. It also promised speed, storing your most frequently accessed photos and videos locally and in full fidelity, and storage efficiency, leaving your less frequently accessed photos and videos on the server a tap or click away.
More importantly, Apple promised all of this as a part of something more ? photos and videos as core components of the company's operating systems.
Now, some seven months later, Apple has seeded the first Photos for Mac beta to developers for testing. There will be a public beta at some point, and a full release this spring, so this is really just the tip of the Photos iceberg. But in the meantime, here are some first impressions, and an answer to the question we've been asking most ? in a post-iPhoto, post-Aperture world, how well will modern Mac owners be served by the Photos app?
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