First of all, this was announced more than 3 years ago, and it
still won't happen for another 2.5 years.
Second of all, this should be treated as good news for the HN crowd: Google is transitioning from a proprietary, Chrome-only app model to the open-standard, PWA model. Who doesn't support that?
There are a bunch of "typical Google cancelling a product" comments here. But for real, I simply cannot imagine any Chrome app which people actually use, whose developer is not going to transition to PWA and gain a bigger market.
Seriously, this is like complaining that Microsoft Edge doesn't support ActiveX controls. (And I certainly don't recall any complaints about that here.)
This is good news, people. Less fragmentation and more open standards.
Second of all, this should be treated as good news for the HN crowd: Google is transitioning from a proprietary, Chrome-only app model to the open-standard, PWA model. Who doesn't support that?
There are a bunch of "typical Google cancelling a product" comments here. But for real, I simply cannot imagine any Chrome app which people actually use, whose developer is not going to transition to PWA and gain a bigger market.
Seriously, this is like complaining that Microsoft Edge doesn't support ActiveX controls. (And I certainly don't recall any complaints about that here.)
This is good news, people. Less fragmentation and more open standards.