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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
by BenTheElder 11y ago
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.
- diminoten 11y agoI'd bet that the majority of engineers at Google use OS X.
- BenTheElder 11y agoThis might be true but I imagine at least some of their employees use Linux and would like to use drive from Linux.
- GauntletWizard 11y agoAll 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.
- what_ever 11y ago> 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?
- Psyonic 11y agoWhen 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.
- diminoten 11y agoThat'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).