How Google Photos joined the billion-user club

guest · Jul 25, 2019

How Google Photos joined the billion-user club
July 24, 2019
https://www.fastcompany.com/90380618/how-google-photos-joined-the-billion-user-club

Eight of its products have hit that enviable milestone: Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, the Google Play store, YouTube, and, of course, its namesake search engine.

Make that nine.
The company is announcing that Google Photos has crossed the billion-user threshold.
Still, Google Photos’ success was hardly preordained. The app is a spin-off from Google+ [...] Once spun out, it arrived years after other tools for storing, organizing, and sharing photos;

Sabharwal’s exploration of what Google+ Photos should be had led him to a stark conclusion: It shouldn’t be part of Google+. Instead, he believed, it could stand on its own as a photo app that was first about helping people preserve, organize, and enjoy their own images, and only secondarily about sharing them with others.

Perhaps more than any other Google product of recent years, Photos has benefited from the company getting everything right—which, for a service borne of Google+, feels like a little miracle.
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The ultimate goal of the new app is, of course, still more growth. “We’ve crossed this really critical milestone of a billion monthly users, and Gallery Go is how we think about the next billion,” says Sabharwal, who calls the desire to preserve and share photos universal.
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