“ provide APIs for accessing device capabilities, which is something that’s been lacking in Web applications for browsers,” IDC analyst Al Hilwa told TechHive earlier this year. That’s a price you have to pay for running those apps closer to the metal, so to speak. Having the available helps to ease the transition.” “People want to interact with their Web apps as easily as they do with their desktop apps. “Clearly, one of the missions of the whole Chrome initiative is to serve as an incentive for people to adopt HTML5 and create cross-platform or Web applications,” says Rubin. Now, there’s a Web-app Start button right on your taskbar, and the packaged apps don’t even require an Internet connection. With the arrival of packaged apps and the Chrome App Launcher, no longer will you need to connect to the Internet, open the Chrome browser, and launch the Web app you want to use. Hey, who put Chrome OS’s Start button where my Windows Start button used to be? The apps without tiny arrows in their lower-left corner are all packaged apps. “The availability of the Chrome App Launcher for Windows helps to further blur the line.” “For quite some time, we’ve had a dichotomy between Web apps and native apps, and one of the things that sets them apart is the ability to be launched from the desktop and have a degree of persistence and independence from the browser,” says Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research. You could consider packaged apps to basically be desktop Web apps, as odd as that sounds.
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