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Google has acquired video-editing startup company Fly Labs on Nov. 6, Friday, as Google Photos finally reaches 100 million users five months after being released.
The transition to Google Photos does not mean that Fly Labs would stop providing the company's four apps immediately since the iOS apps would continue being available for at least three more months.
Moreover, Google has made in-app purchases in Fly Labs' works absolutely free during the aforementioned period.
Fly Labs, based in New York City, currently has four apps for iOS users which have been downloaded at least three million times in the last 18 months, according to The Verge.
Likewise, all of the apps are easy to use for editing mobile videos.
The first app, Clips, allows iOS users to modify videos efficiently. Second, the Tempo app provides features such as time-lapse and slow-motion. Third, Crop turns unimpressionable vertical videos into landscape copies. Finally, Fly allows users to customize videos through simple gestures.
Currently, Google Photos does not have video-editing apps as remarkable as those made by Fly Labs. While Snapseed is also available, Google Photos could only compile images together and turn them immediately into a video through an algorithm, according to STGIST.
Initially a component of social network Google+, Google Photos was eventually turned into a massive storage service for photos and videos. Aside from providing Android users with a large online storage option, the service also aims to capture a portion of the iOS photo apps market.
As a backup option, Google Photos automatically stores the photo and video files of both Android and iOS users. More importantly, all of the files are kept privately unless the owner decides to share them to other people.
Announced back in May, one advantage of Google's photo and video service is its unlimited storage. In addition, Google Photos accepts any file size and resolution to maintain the quality of each file.
