Google Kills Apps In Web Store For Mac

Chrome-Web-Store Google has started following through on to kill of Chrome Apps for Windows, Mac and Linux users by shutting down (or at least hiding) the Chrome Web Store Apps section for those platforms. As spotted by Ron Amadeo over at, an email is being sent out to developers in which Google re-iterated what it said last August about Chrome Apps being scheduled to stop working on Windows, Mac & Linux in Q1 2018. The Chrome Web Store is still showing Chrome Apps for Chrome OS users at this time, but Windows, Mac and Linux users are not seeing any apps or games – though it’s understood you can still link directly to the apps themselves for now.

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Aug 19, 2016 - Google today announced plans to kill off Chrome apps for Windows. Web Store will no longer show Chrome apps on Windows, Mac,.

At the time, Google announced that Chrome Apps are used by only 1% of Windows, Mac and Linux users. In the email sent to developers, Google said they will be working to bring Progressive Web Apps to Desktops with a mid-2018 target date for that functionality anticipated at this stage. Progressive Web Apps will allow desktop users to pin icons and shortcuts to the ‘apps’, similar to the function that ‘hosted apps’ performed previously. Support for Progessive Web Apps is becoming more available, with Microsoft building support for PWAs into Windows 10, and Apple is similarly building support for PWAs into Safari.

• Aug 19, 2016 - Google is killing Chrome apps unless you have a Chromebook. That means no Chrome apps will be available to download on Windows, Mac or Linux. Are getting a more prominent showcase in the Chrome Web Store.
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Most Android browsers including Opera, Firefox and the Samsung mobile browser support PWAs, so this looks like the way forward. We’ll have to wait for the glorious new PWA future for just a bit longer, but hopefully not too long.

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For those who haven’t used Chrome apps, they are a great way of running a small app in their own dedicated windows. To run these apps, Chrome browser needs to be running. Over the past years, with an increased adoption in businesses and schools. To close the app gap, Google launched the Chrome apps platform. Google also made the Chrome apps universal, allowing them to run on Windows, Linux, or Mac computers as well.

Sadly, the Chrome apps platform experiment has failed. According to a blog post by Google, only 1 percent of all Chrome users on Windows, Linux, and Mac use Chrome apps. “We will be removing support for packaged and hosted apps from Chrome on Windows, Mac, and Linux over the next two years.” — Google wrote From late 2016, new Chrome apps will only be published for the Chrome OS users. In 2017 second half, the Chrome Web Store will no longer show any Chrome apps for the above-mentioned platforms, but will load surface extensions and themes. In early 2018, these platforms will no longer load Chrome apps.

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