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Google photos was the best thing to come out of Google+

• miked85 4y ago
  Wasn't that their Picasa acquisition?
  • jmmv 4y ago
    I mean… there is a huge stretch between the Picasa they acquired and what Google Photos is today.
    • krzyk 4y ago
      Never used Google+, but used Picasa/photos from the beginning.
      • Kye 4y ago
        Picasa was a desktop application. I'm not sure if the web thing has any connection to it other than branding and integration.
        • krzyk 4y ago
          Picasa uploaded photos to picasaweb, before Google rebranded it to photos.
• skybrian 4y ago
  Hangouts was pretty good too. Eventually replaced by Meet.
  • aix1 4y ago
    I'm not sure if we used the same Hangouts, but the one I used couldn't always reliably deliver messages.
    • skybrian 4y ago
      Yeah I meant the video chat.
• achow 4y ago
  From a (great) podcast: https://review.firstround.com/podcast/episode-11 https://review.firstround.com/podcast/episode-11 Today’s episode is with David Lieb, the Director of Google Photos. Previously, he was the founder/CEO of Bump, an app that allowed users to swap contact information by physically bumping phones. Bump was acquired by Google in 2013, and formed the basis for the design of Google Photos, which launched in 2015 and passed the 1 billion users mark in 2019.
• danpalmer 4y ago
  Internally, a ton of tech came out of Google+. Modern Google services and apps are basically using the G+ tech stack. It seems like that sped up the company significantly so that may be the "best thing" to come out of it.