Google Photos` free backups are gone, but here`s why I`m sticking around
(Android Central)

So long, and thanks for all the searchable memories. Half a decade ago, backing up your photos was a tedious and often expensive experience unless you just sat down with a USB cable and a huge external drive once or twice a week. Wait, no, that method was the most tedious of all. We`ve come a long way since then. Amazon, Apple, Google, and basically every cloud storage company all offer automatic photo backups with robust indexing and photo management, and many of them have free tiers depending on the quality of your photos or if you subscribe to other services. Google Photos helped spur this change by offering up one of the best damn photo backups on the internet for five full years. Now that the free ride is over, I`m not getting off this bandwagon. Five years of training and refining have made Google Photos 100% worth paying for — especially when it doesn`t cost me anything extra. Unparalelled photo searching Part of the reason Google was willing to give away free unlimited ...