Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section

Re:Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web... by cotillion on Thursday December 07, 2017 @05:19AM (#15868922)

The big plus for Chrome Apps for me was that the store made it possible to actually get new users for your apps. For organizations without $ this was useful as a good app would get good visibility once it had a lot of happy users and got good reviews. This was probably a good thing both for users and developers.

Now we instead have to pay Google for ads to get visibility for our PWA. Now we're probably going to turn to Facebook and try to get some traction there.. From one evil walled garden into the next!

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Re:Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web... by owebmaster on Thursday December 07, 2017 @05:28AM (#15868955)

> Now we're probably going to turn to Facebook and try to get some traction there..

And that is why the web is dying.

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Re:Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web... by ctrl-j on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:05AM (#15871205)

You have an alternative to offer? Facebook is where the users are. What is your non-facebook approach to get visibility from new users?

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Re:Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web... by 5ilv3r on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:25PM (#15872592)

Local seems to be the next frontier. As in, a storefront. What's old is new again (again)!

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Re:Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web... by z3t4 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @05:45PM (#15875096)

And don't forget about public relations. Spend some time with your future users!

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