The difference is Drive is a flagship "L-team" product, so it's pretty much on equal standing to Google+ in terms of priority. When Larry Page took the helm he

The difference is Drive is a flagship "L-team" product, so it's pretty much on equal standing to Google+ in terms of priority. When Larry Page took the helm he created 7 core focus areas + accompanying SVP's (A nice summary: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/03/google-larry-page/ http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/03/google-larry-page/). Last weeks reshuffle which had the Maps and Commerce units absorbed into the Knowledge and Ads units respectively and Pichai taking over Android brings it down to 5 focus areas: SVP of Knowledge/Search — Alan Eustace, SVP of Identity/Social — Vic Gundotra, SVP of Advertising and Commerce — Susan Wojcicki, SVP of YouTube/Video — Salar Kamangar, SVP of Android, Chrome and Google Apps — Sundar Pichai The key distinction between Drive and Reader is that Drive is pretty much the embodiment of Google Apps itself, whereas Reader was an orphaned product which didn't have a home in any of these 5 post-Page areas.