...and how do you imagine *that* happened?
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how do i imagine what happened
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If you'll allow, I'd be happy to recount (some of) the history.
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Co-incident to our efforts on Web Components, another team inside of Chrome was developing "Chrome Apps"; I argued against them at the time.
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...but argument that a more capable platform was needed wasn't wrong. Question was "how". Many platform folks (incl me) busy w/ WC/ES6.
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In 2012 I moved to London for personal reasons and had to stop co-leading the Web Components/ES6 efforts because time-zones wouldn't work.
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Chrome Apps v1 and v2 happened between 2010 and 2013. Meanwhile, AppCache had been deployed broadly and was not received well.
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So developer choices were: - standard thing that wasn't "first class" and didn't work well - proprietary thing w/ limited reach
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The major difference between them wasn't the proprietary/open split, tho, it was "on the web" vs. "app store model".
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This seems counter-intuitive, but the difference is a chasm; not small. Defines all other choices in the solution space.
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So lets say you're me circa 2012: you want a way to address the first-class-apps problem but aren't in a position to do so organisationally
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...what to do? Well, in my case was lucky: the effort that didn't involve new UI (the hard part) was to fix the offline story; needed doing.
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