Google Photos: Huge success after only five months

The cloud storage service of Big G is used by over 100 million people around the world, probably for his plans extremely cheap on the cheap side.

Google photos has been launched as a new product at the end of last May, but arises from a base already existing and well-established for many years within the social network Google. Among the features are inherited animation Auto Awesome, the ability to edit the photos, automatically upload the same and the search feature. It is a rebrand, in short, that nevertheless served to channel the success of the product reaching the milestone of 100 million users.

The success came thanks to rebrand and new economic plans, and simple access to functionality for Google users (not many), and for those who use Android (more than a billion). With the rebrand Big G introduced a succulent plan totally free unlimited storage for all the photos that do not exceed the 16-megapixel resolution and do not take more than a predefined threshold of disk space. And this has probably contributed a lot to the spread of the service.

To announce the achievement of 100 million users is the same that Google has listed some of the ways of use of the service users. People use Google Photos to save personal photos and those of food, with weddings and concerts among the most photographed events and sought the service. The favorite locations are the immortal Paris that surpasses New York, while dogs and cats exceed the ever win the crown of one of the most coveted rankings of the web.

Let the numbers: Google says that the introduction of self-upload helped to free about 3,720 terabytes of storage space on users’ devices. It is unclear, if that figure represents the amount of data loaded with features, or if it is the correct amount of pictures deleted from the devices using the Google Photos Assistant. However, this is an impressive number, regardless of all considerations that can be moved.