’re all patiently waiting to figure out what exactly is going to do with its frail social network, +, today’s news isn’t looking to good for it.

In a blog entry, announced that you can now access all those photos you backed up with + through Drive. Its intended to make it easier for you to use photos in your documents, but frankly, there’s probably more to the announcement happening behind the scenes.

The story behind the story: It’s slightly redundant to have your photos on both + Drive, though suggests this will make it easier to organize them as you see fit add other file types to a Drive folder. That makes sense for sticking photos in your docs, but it also sort of hints at something major on the horizon. This update may the first step in a plan to separate ‘s photo service from + entirely.

Is this the beginning of end of +? Or is this ’s attempt at dethroning Evernote? rhaps even doesn’t know what it’s doing with its own social network. For now, you can get the Drive update directly from the ay store or wait for it to hit your device.