Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by izacus 1748 days ago
It's just... easier for engineers. Less to test, less code, less to think about. And right now, all software is being built at the pleasure of the software engineers - this is why you're also seeing shift towards things like Electron apps and less options and worse UX. It's just easier for the guy programming it and noone really cares about user experience because there's no real competition.

I mean, what are you going to do, use a 3rd party client for Google's services? You're not allowed to - at least not on the same service level.

1 comments

> I mean, what are you going to do, use a 3rd party client for Google's services? You're not allowed to - at least not on the same service level.

3rd party Google Drive clients have been the only type of Google Drive client on Linux for a long time.

Probably the only good graphical client is this one and it's actually pretty good: https://www.insynchq.com/