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Google has launched plenty of forgettable and downright disastrous initiatives over the years, but one of its most successful and beloved bits of kit has to be Google Photos. While the u-turn on unlimited photo storage has taken the sheen off the app recently, Photos remains arguably the best photo backup option in the business and a cornerstone of the Android mobile experience.
Looking back at the initial launch seven years later, it seems to me that simplified photo backups was one of Google’s more ingenious plays in the mobile space.