] as the author of the article and a few here have noted, google delivers its services thru the browser and windows 8 has a very capable browser, who needs native google win 8 apps?
] i don't need it on my desktop or on my laptop or even on large screen windows 10" tablets.
] where i do -need- want native win-8 google apps is on my small screen windows phone 8.
] unfortunately for windows phone users, the only thing smaller than windows 8 phone market share is windows 8 desktop OS market share.
] IF the windows 8 phone marketshare continues to trend upwards, i would say there's a pretty good chance google will have some sweet native win-8 versions of products ...
] until then windows phone users are stuck with the mobile website version of the g apps