> To get them off you had to plug your phone into your pc, pull the media card, or pay through the nose to email them to yourself (unless you had WiFi at home w

> To get them off you had to plug your phone into your pc, pull the media card, or pay through the nose to email them to yourself (unless you had WiFi at home which not everyone did at the time). How is that different from iPhone? > The iPhone and the apps actually encouraged people to share their images and explore others in the way that devices before didn't. Shouldn't you give credit for that to the apps/services? Pioneering service in this regard was e.g. Flickr which weren't exclusive to Apple - you could use them on the web, on iPhone, Android, even dumbphones. > but for android it wasn't really until Google photos that photo backup and sharing got as simple and easy. Sharing photos on Facebook was a thing since the beginning of Android. That used to be a big reason to sign up on FB.