Google used to actually have a handful of native applications on linux. I remember uploading to google play music with a linux client (not web) and stuff like google drive were "promised" or something like that.

It was all really short lived though. I remember that uploader broke fairly quickly as, of course, some abi change in some library dep and of course there was never another release.

It's not really what's missing... it's just google's 'here today, gone tomorrow'. They really shouldn't be called engineers.