> the camera photos were stuck on the camera

I'm surprised no camera manufacturer has created an easy way to get all your photos to Google Photos / iCloud/ Dropbox / etc. They have some wireless photo transfer things, but they're clunky and unusable. Just connect the camera to WiFi and auto-upload everything to the service of my choice. I'm guessing it's a mix of:

* Camera manufacturers are hardware companies and can't do software and cloud stuff.

* It wouldn't interact well with swapping SD cards, which is what all the pros want.

* The camera would need to stay powered when off to upload photos. Current cameras have a hard power switch.

Also vendor lock-in. The camera company gets no revenue from integrating with Google/Apple, and potentially loses a source of lock-in, so why do it?

Also, the RAW format that the camera stores is huge, and pretty much unusable. You'd want to store JPGs but those are export format not that actual image. Though I guess that's an answer to the lock-in question: export jpgs to the cloud, keep the RAW images on the device.