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What is the future of (gorgeous) apps like these once they really pull the plug on Chrome Apps? #564

Open mercmobily opened 2 years ago

mercmobily commented 2 years ago

I personally think that killing off Chrome Apps altogether will raise the barrier of people publishing them. The beauty of a Chrome App was that you could publish it on the store, and not actually care about actually hosting it. The "hosting" part was done by Google. By dropping the Chrome Apps functionality (as of this month, and as of 2024 for paying customers), they effectively say "There are no apps, there can only be web sites that look like apps". But then developers will need to organise their own hosting, organise a web worker to keep it in the cache, and so on.

What are your plans for this one?

BroJac5246 commented 2 years ago

I personally think that killing off Chrome Apps altogether will raise the barrier of people publishing them. The beauty of a Chrome App was that you could publish it on the store, and not actually care about actually hosting it. The "hosting" part was done by Google. By dropping the Chrome Apps functionality (as of this month, and as of 2024 for paying customers), they effectively say "There are no apps, there can only be web sites that look like apps". But then developers will need to organise their own hosting, organise a web worker to keep it in the cache, and so on.

What are your plans for this one?

I don't know the answer, but there are only 3 realistic possibilities:

  1. The app gets discontinued
  2. It gets ported to a PWA
  3. It gets its own chrome:// URL. That's how the Media App is hosted.
mercmobily commented 2 years ago

Hi,

ouch. ok thanks.

Merc.

On Thu, 4 Aug 2022, 8:35 pm BroJac5246, @.***> wrote:

I personally think that killing off Chrome Apps altogether will raise the barrier of people publishing them. The beauty of a Chrome App was that you could publish it on the store, and not actually care about actually hosting it. The "hosting" part was done by Google. By dropping the Chrome Apps functionality (as of this month, and as of 2024 for paying customers), they effectively say "There are no apps, there can only be web sites that look like apps". But then developers will need to organise their own hosting, organise a web worker to keep it in the cache, and so on.

What are your plans for this one?

I don't know the answer, but there are only 3 realistic possibilities:

  1. The app gets discontinued
  2. It gets ported to a PWA
  3. It gets its own chrome:// URL. That's how the Media App is hosted.

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