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Google Photos was itself a (poor) replacement for Picasa, which they acquired sometime in mid-00s.

I recently found my Dad still uses the Picasa library I setup on a home PC maybe 15 years ago.

The heart of Google Drive is Google Docs which is 2006.

Amazing that anyone uses Google Drive with the horrendous user interface. Honestly File Manager in Windows 3.11 is easier to use. You can actually find out how big a directory is in File Manager!

Would you bet on Google Photos surviving more than say the next 5 years? I wouldn't.

It's been around for 7 years now with over 1B users and is directly monetized by storage space. I'm a big Apple ecosystem person and even I use Google Photos instead of iCloud so I would bet on it, yes.

Disclaimer: I work at Google. Opinions are my own, etc etc. I have 0 to do with the Photos team.

Google Photos is an amazing product, it has an amazing offering and works extremely well. It's also extremely popular and integral to the Android ecosystem. I'd absolutely bet of it not being shutdown in the next 5 years, yes.

one of the few I would, yes.