It's concept that's been employed in data management for years, and it's something Apple's been doing for music for a while with iTunes Match. Think about it as a hybrid drive, but instead of HD/SSD fusion, it's local/cloud fusion. Older and less frequently accessed pictures and videos are kept online so they don't end up consuming all your local storage, but can be re-downloaded quickly any time you want them. Apple is using "nearline storage" for this, so the most recently added and accessed pictures and videos are kept locally, optionally at device-optimized resolution, and immediately available to you. What's more, all your pictures and videos will be stored (and backed up) on Apple's servers, at full resolution, in its original format - including RAW. Built on their new CloudKit service, iCloud Photo Library will make sure every picture and video you take, import, save, or otherwise bring into Photos is synced to all of your Apple devices, including, along with its organizational information and any and all non-destructive edits you've applied to it.
To accomplish all this, Apple is introducing iCloud Photo Library. Apple wants to make sure that anyone with both an iOS device and a Mac gets a seamless experience with their photos, same as they already get with everything from their iCloud mail to their iTunes music to their iWork documents. Increasingly, more and more of them own a Mac as well.
Hundreds of millions of people own an iPhone, iPod touch, and/or an iPad.
They're going to make Photos not just an app but a service for everyone on every Apple device. With Photos, Apple is saying pictures and video - our memories - are so important they're going to make them an integral part of iOS, OS X, and iCloud at the system level. They were built in an era before iOS and before iCloud and while they've had some interface and compatibility layers bolted on, they were never rebooted the way iMovie and Final Cut Pro were in terms of interface, or Pages, Numbers, and Keynote were in terms of compatibility. IPhoto and Aperture are, by modern standards, old apps.
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