What &quot;app&quot; are you saying matters that couldn&#x27;t be built as a chrome app? It&#x27;s just a different platform. It could be argued it&#x27;s a better platform than most operating systems and more similar to the smartphone app model than not.<p>I still have faith in chrome os as an idea. I really believe most personal machines will be front-ends only. There is no reason I should need more computing power than it takes to display things on my screen.<p>I look forward to the day I have a passive box running git and ssh and I can run a terminal and editor in a browser tab wherever whenever I need to from a usb stick.  In fact I don&#x27;t know why that stick couldn&#x27;t also be my phone.