From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Paul  wrote:   
   [...]   
      
   [Just a small interuption of your - mostly on-the-mark - analysis:]   
      
   > With a smartphone, yes, I could use it, but only within the parameters   
   > of my little jail. "Oh, you have to sent your pictures to the Cloud,   
   > because for no particular reason you cannot transfer locally without   
   > a computer science lab."   
      
     Just for the record, 'local' [1] transfers both Android <--> Android   
   and Android <--> Windows are trivial, but for some strange reason some   
   people use the most awkward methods/tools and get into all kinds of   
   inexplicable problems. For other (most?) people, it's not an issue at   
   all and it Just Works (TM).   
      
     Yes, I realize that you said 'smartphone' - not 'Android' - and didn't   
   mention the other end - which also could be macOS, Chrome OS, Linux,   
   etc. -, so I limit my comment to the platforms I mentioned.   
      
   [...]   
      
   [1] Where local can be on a LAN or on the Internet (without a 'cloud').   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)