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Chrome packaged and hosted apps will be discontinued on Windows, Mac, and Linux over the course of now and early 2018. For more information, refer to the August 2016 Chromium blog post. This transition does not apply to Chrome OS, where Chrome packaged and hosted apps will remain supported and maintained for the foreseeable future.
To transition away from a Chrome packaged or hosted app on Windows, Mac, and Linux, the following options are available.
Recommended migration options for packaged apps are listed in order from simplest to most complicated.
Building a web app on top of the web platform is the ideal way to reach users across platforms.
If there are web platform features you need that are only available in select browsers, you can use feature detection to gracefully degrade or include explanatory text when your app is run in a browser that doesn't support a particular API. If there are gaps in the web platform for your application, please let us know.
An experimental tool that can help migrate simple Chrome Apps to Progressive Web Apps is Caterpillar. This tool can insert JavaScript to substitute Chrome Apps APIs you might be using. It is currently limited to handling only certain types of apps. In particular, apps that contain processing in background pages will not be converted.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by GungnirSniper on Thursday October 13 2016, @08:42PM
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @11:22PM
Because most products coming out of Google fall into three of the standard traps: 1) good ideas sell themselves; 2) emergent products (think emergent properties); 3) no engineers in marketing.
Sometimes people think that good ideas sell themselves. While it is true that an idea being good HELPS to sell it, it cannot do it on its own. You need some sort of product push or demo or something to get the initial mind share. Especially when you are making a product for general audiences.
Sometimes products are emergent. They are the result of emergence, according to wikipedia: emergence is a process whereby larger entities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities such that the larger entities exhibit properties the smaller/simpler entities do not exhibit. Similarly, products can develop from features added to other products or multiple products are mixed together. It can be difficult to market those as they aren't really stable or are "one thing" that you can market.
Sometimes there are no engineers in marketing. In order to effectively sell a product, you have to be able to speak the language of the consumer based on the information you heard from the producer. If marketing doesn't really understand what the product is, they can't really do more than parrot responses, like the man in the Chinese Room. This can be the result of no "engineers" to translate tech talk into normal language or take the normal language and mix in appropriate tech talk.