Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product Again?

Re:Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product ... by jeffbee on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:44PM (#33660924)

By a huge margin the two biggest Linux clients of Drive are Android and ChromeOS. "Actually linux" is literally 5+ orders of magnitude smaller. Google maintains and updates 99.999% of Linux drive clients every month.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product ... by aussiesnack on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:09PM (#33661313)

I (and Google's comment, and the quoted link) am referring to deskop Linux, as is perfectly obvious.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product ... by jeroenhd on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:21PM (#33661471)

For what it's worth, Anbox/Waydroid can run the Android-based GUI quite well. The Android subsystem doesn't integrate too well with native applications, but for things like basic sync and even document editing it works, at least.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product ... by aussiesnack on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:31PM (#33661616)

In truth I'm not really looking for a solution. I was snarking really. I was a consistent user (and paid for Google One) until they removed the Google Photos integration, which killed much of the point of it for me.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

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