Have you ever seen a googler work? They do nearly everything on their webapps, and the programmers live in source control.

There was an article from a while back as to why Google wasn't working on gdrive faster and one of their engineering managers was quoted as saying something to the effect of "why are we syncing files? Who needs files, we have everything on the web". But unfortunately I can't find that reference right now.

But it doesn't seem too far a stretch to think that some web-heavy companies prefer web solutions with as "stateless" clients as possible.

I can't really see people using Drive on their work desktops. As for laptops, it seems most people at Google choose mac.

Why is it that you do not see people using Drive on desktops? It can be useful in many ways.

I guess I see my work desktop as exclusively for work-related activities (plus Facebook and HN). Whereas a work-issued laptop could be a mix of both. I noticed a similar trend in those around me. Don't really see people organizing their photo library on their workstations...

But Google Drive can be used to do real work by sharing work documents across many email accounts, etc... It's a good collaboration tool for certain things.