[sameer_sundresh]

From our research at Everpix, most photos taken today are on mobile phones, and most people very rarely connect their phones to their computers. So you really need a solution that starts on the mobile device, and cloud services work the best for that.

[satyap]

Yep. My old phone used to plug in on USB, show up as a disk, I can use standard tools to copy the pics and vids. New phone, no of course not. Progress. Feh.

Clue: Everyone is not itunes compliant! Grr!

[eksith]

I usually select and dump my photos/videos to a shared drive on my laptop over wifi, so cloud is still an ancillary feature for me. After all, what if I'm in an area with no reception? I can still use Bluetooth to transfer files.

Edit: Here's what I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mori.andro...

[sameer_sundresh]

Thanks, I'll have to try that out. So far, I haven't had great experiences accessing my Android devices from my Linux laptop.

That said, your workflow isn't representative of most users, if only for the fact that most users don't really have a workflow per se, they just do whatever's easiest at the moment. People have photos all over the place (mobile devices, multiple computers/drives, social networks, email, etc.), and Everpix pulls them together into one unified collection.