Google announced on Friday that it will stop supporting Chrome apps in 2018. The company said that the apps were originally developed for a younger Web, back when developers didn’t have such advanced tools, like support for offline products or notifications. Things have changed, though, and so have Chrome’s users, so Google is adapting.
You probably won’t even miss much. In fact, Google explained that just 1 percent of its users across Windows, Mac and Linux are actually “actively [using] Chrome packaged apps, and most hosted apps are already implemented as regular Web apps.” To start the transition, Google said it’ll clear out all of its Chrome apps from the Web store beginning during the second half of next year. Support will end in 2018. Google says developers should just migrate their current Chrome apps to the web.
“As the capabilities of the web continue to grow, we’re excited to see what developers build next,” Google VP of product development Rahul Roy-Chowdhury said. “Alongside other browser vendors, we remain committed to investment in the web and enabling users and developers to benefit from its openness and reach.”
Good point. By 2018, we’ll all be nose-deep in Oculus Rift units living in virtual reality anyway.
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