Google is launching a Web Apps store, that will let developers sell their web service/application. Google will use their existing Google Checkout system to process the credit card transaction..
Basically – Google just cock punched Apple in the mouth.
They demoed HTML5 standards that can deliver full off-line applications, with 3D graphics and access to local storage.
Is that going to become the new write once, run everywhere?
All you need is a Webkit browser (just Chrome right now, but HTML5 is big on graceful degradation, and as Google pointed out even IE is on the fast track to support these features)… Every platform has one of those (except maybe BlackBerry and Nokia.. But Nokia will very soon I read).
Kind of makes me want to make a Jupiter Broadcasting app. I love the idea of being able to simply publish updates to the app, and instantly everyone is running the latest version.
This just might turn these online sites into real honest “apps” that don’t care about your OS…
Seems so obvious really. It also is a clear play to build an app catalog for Chrome OS.
May 19th, 2010
Earlier this morning for a brief moment, Google posted the specs on Chrome OS, as well as some download links. Like most new Google stuff, it had a clear BETA label, and since the page has now been pulled I thought I’d re-post what I saw here: