They're killing the apps I actually use from them. Carousel was quite useful for all of the photos I've uploaded, and handles uploading the photos pretty well too.

This is finally giving me the opportunity to explore using some of the other cloud storage such as Google Drive or even iCloud where I can save some money each month as well.

Yes. They are shooting themselves into the feet. Too bad I pay annually! They won't be able to realize I left them until next year! I even got one extra year from Dell's Black Friday. Urgh!

I was just thinking the same. Uninstalled it after reading the news.

The "free up phone space" feature was too good on my phone (old and limited space)

If you want to migrate somewhere else - Google Photos for Android was updated recently with this feature and it was announced for iOS to come soon.

Well, if you are worried about cancelled apps and platforms, Google Photos is probably not a good bet. They went from Picasa to Google+ Photos to Google Photos. In every transition, features were lost that people relied on...

Yeah, it will be lame if they decided to kill it just because Google Photos added a feature.