[Aqueous]

It seems like he may be making a play to get this acquired by Google so that they can offer a desktop app. That's why the branding. I can't think of a better way to get Google's attention than to blatantly violate their trademarks - though it might be the legal department, not M&A, that reaches out to him :-)

[pulmo]

Google wouldn't need to acquire the project if they wanted a desktop app. It's just a client ... nothing Google engineers couldn't handle.

[Aqueous]

Right - an embedded webview with some window dressing. But it seems like they don't want to handle it, as they've made clear. So why not shell out a few bucks for one that's already made?

[gohrt]

because the first thing they'd do with it is throw away and rewrite it on the Google tech stack.

But this person might land a job at Google, like the Sparrow folks... http://sparrowmailapp.com/

[Touche]

This is seriously just a stylesheet: https://raw.github.com/kbhomes/google-music-mac/master/googl...

That's not an insult, it's supremely awesome that this is even possible and that this dev made it happen. I'm using it now. But there are a few of these types of things for Google Music, there's a similar Chromebook app.

[pulmo]

Because they would need to support it. Plus all the other reasons why they don't have a native desktop client now. Like the strategic goal to establish Chrome as an app platform.