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This is turning into a running gag. It's not like this is rocket science. Google has their client on Windows, Mac, and Android, while Dropbox is available for ... Windows, Mac, and Linux.

On the other hand, given the size of the market for people using Linux on their desktop computers, I cannot exactly blame Google for not giving a damn about it. OTOH, Chrome for Linux exists, so...

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Small note: Dropbox has android/iOS/web as well and Drive has web/iOS.

As for the market, that includes a lot of their own employees does it not?

Edit: Not to say that there is a big market or that this would dictate what their priorities are, just saying I'm sure even some googlers would like drive to work well on Linux.

I'd bet that the majority of engineers at Google use OS X.

This might be true but I imagine at least some of their employees use Linux and would like to use drive from Linux.

All of google's backend code is written on Linux desktops. OSX is common for laptops, but real code isn't permitted to touch their drives.

> but real code isn't permitted to touch their drives

Do you mean one is not allowed to check out the code on OSX and sync to the dev/linux box?

When I was there, that's exactly how it worked. Obviously not the case if you were doing OSX or iPhone dev, but otherwise no code on your laptop.

That's a security rule, not an anti-OS X rule.

I still bet that the majority of engineers at Google use OS X on their primary laptops (and they still wouldn't be allowed to put the code on their laptops, even if the laptops were Linux).

Dropbox is also available for Android, and I believe iOS as well.

Linux client isn't the best, doesn't work well with KDE.

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