I have never been able to make an Apple laptop recognize my phone as a USB storage device to copy photos from it. GOOG phones used to cost less than half of AP

I have never been able to make an Apple laptop recognize my phone as a USB storage device to copy photos from it. GOOG phones used to cost less than half of APPL ones. And for a while to have physically wider screens which made them better book readers. Unfortunately the price difference seems to be nearly negligible now.