Throughout the year, support for apps will be removed from all platforms except Chrome OS, except in organizations that need time to transition to other technologies. Google is now planning the second phase of this process, which starts in a few months, when the company will no longer accept new apps to the Web Store. In fact, if you visit the Web Store on anything but a Chromebook, the apps section is invisible. Google phased out all types of apps across all platforms, except Chrome OS, in early 2018. Once upon a time, the Chrome Web Store offered "packaged" applications (web apps that ran locally, sometimes with elevated permissions), "hosted" applications (web apps that were just links to websites), and regular browser extensions. Fast forward three years, and while I'm still hanging around this lovely site, Chrome Web Store apps aren't long for this world. One of the first articles I wrote here at Android Police was about how Google planned to phase out apps from the Chrome Web Store, believing Progressive Web Apps to be the future.
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