Chrome apps to be phased out this year.

[gm66]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/16/google_phasing_out_support_for_chrome_apps_across_all_operating_systems/

[ergophobe]

I think the big place that might be a problem is on Chrome OS. My experience with my Chromebook, before I left it on the airplane, was that the browser/extension experience was better than the app experience anyway.

[buckworks]

>> before I left it on the airplane

<makes sympathetic noises>

[rcjordan]

>browser/extension experience was better

From the article I read, it seems everyone else thought the same.  The C Apps just weren't getting any traction.

[ergophobe]

The thing about the apps, is they seemed to be designed to work on tablets and phones and the UI felt like it. Same with Android apps on the Chromebook. A Chromebook really is a laptop, so the "desktop" paradigm works best and responsive wed design is fairly mature in how it scales to different sizes.

Headline: "Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used anyhow"
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21067907/google-chrome-apps-end-support-lune-windows-macos-linux

<makes sympathetic noises>

Foolish of me (or rather, fatigued and distracted of me), but as I said in the Chromebook thread, that's why I bought it for traveling - low cost, long battery life, almost no local data, strong password and two-factor auth required to log in, ability to revoke 2FA authorization remotely, everything backed up to the cloud.

[rcjordan]

> Same with Android apps on the Chromebook.

Yeah, but they are handy if you want to put together a does-everything device.  Ex: Peripheral devices in the smarthome world lean heavily on phone apps.  By putting phone apps in the Chromebook's start column, I have central command console with a keyboard. 

[ergophobe]

And.... 37 days later, AA found it
http://th3core.com/talk/hardware-technology/chromebook-crush-tough-linux-not-too-expensive/msg65227/#msg65227