Comment by Neeek

It has sync and backup options, tools for non destructive changes and robust search, a web UI so it can be used like a dropbox. Just because it's not useful to you doesn't mean it's useful to no one. Oh and importers for cloud things, they show off automatic sync pulling down a twitter feed and some foursquares check-ins.

Not an effort to sway your opinion, just pointing out that it's not really as simple as just saving images to a hard disk.