Chrome is the backdoor to the new application Economy

Using the Aura window manager and packaging applications, Google is changing the impression of Chrome OS. Today, it can operate windows like a desktop system and has offline applications. However, to run Chrome OS, you must purchase Chromebook. Does this limit the development of Chrome OS?

Not necessarily. Because the software platform of Chrome OS is Chrome browser. As long as you use the Chrome browser, you can use the Chrome application. Therefore, Google uses Chromebook to provide a pure Chrome OS experience and promotes the application ECOSYSTEM BASED ON Chrome. The success or failure of Chromebook is not the key at present.

This has always been Google's philosophy. However, the Chrome Web store has not achieved its expected results. The so-called application is actually a webpage link and does not provide users with unique values.

Today, with the advent of packaging applications, the situation is expected to be improved. The Chrome software platform has gradually taken shape. Developers can create specialized applications for them without considering the underlying operating system. This idea of "writing once and running anywhere" is not novel, but with the development of the network, we seem to have seen the hope of achieving it.

Recently, Google is trying to put the Chrome app initiator in another operating system. If Chrome Developer Edition is used, Windows users can use Chrome app starters, while Mac starters are also under development. This makes it easier for Windows and Mac users to use Chrome applications and experience Chrome OS.

In addition, Google also provides a special packaging application, the Native Client application. This type of applications are developed using C or C ++, which is more efficient and suitable for game applications.

All these actions of Google are to make Chrome a more attractive software platform. In a recent article on the GigaOM website, Google's strategy was mentioned, and Google believes that for other operating systems, Chrome is a backdoor to the new application economy.

If you are a Chrome user, from now on, even if you do not have an "official" Chromebook,

You will also be more immersed in the Chrome ecosystem. All of this depends on whether Google can well execute its own strategy to subvert the world of desktop computing, but for now it seems correct.

Remember that the applications in this vision are truly cross-platform and can run on any Windows, Mac, or Linux computer with Chrome installed. If it gets support from developers-I spoke to developers who are about to embrace this kind of effort on Google I/O-Google will build a prosperous desktop platform on platforms created by others. But it will be a more flexible desktop, and new features will be added within a few days or weeks, rather than months or years.