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I may be missing out on something. Is Photos a big thing, and if so, how?
My wife and I share photos of our kids, faces are tagged so new photos automatically go there.
You could say that OneDrive has similar features, however more people have Google accounts through Android devices, so Google is the easier option.
When Facebook was newish and introduced the ability to tag others in photos, I got shivers. I deleted Facebook that weekend purely because of that.
No doubt a shadow profile of me, perhaps several, exists in the dark webs of Meta and Alphabet with no limits on use or retention, but I'm having no part. I'm now curious where the GDPR stands on tagging people with no accounts.
> The last product google ever built and launched successfully.
Now becomes "it doesn't count if it was an acquisition". Youtube would probably be dead if any other company purchased it. Google ate losses for years with it. Golang is a developer product. Chrome was not an acquisition. Maybe you are splitting hairs and saying it is an "acquisition" if they forked an open source project.
Google drive, docs, sheets, photo, the biz facing tools. Those are all successful.
my source: I was there and I'm friends with 100s of the people involved, and saw firsthand how hard everyone worked.