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To me iPhoto is worse than useless, OK for occasional snapshots that are unimportant but for serious use it's a dead loss. As far as I can tell Aperture has some severe limitations, although if you can live with them it's sort of OK I understand, not having used it myself since version 1...
My biggest concern isn't so much the principle they are enabling but the practicalities. Most people at least in the UK and those 'in the sticks' have severe limitations for their uploading and downloading both in terms of speed and available bandwidth per month, even if you are 'unlimited' there is still the 'Fair Usage' policy to contend with. Up and downloading vast amounts of Mb/Gb of RAW images to several computers will play havoc with most folks monthly allowance, even 'Unlimited' I suspect. Even if you are prepared to do the uploading in the dead of night, you have little control over when Apple servers decide to level your folders across all devices, once the original data is loaded to their servers. Quite apart from the fact I don't WANT all my images on all my devices.
I have already experimented with a very similar system when the iCloud launched and had it working well, in fact It's still running a test batch of very large TIFF images (100Mb+) through my iCloud account, quite unofficially and by my own invention!!! The folder I use has now been hidden and is very hard to locate but the folder I embedded in that iCloud folder still gives me access to the iCloud via the back door on each of my computers. A sort of personal 'DropBox'...
Interesting can of worms...
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Robert.