Chrome Web Store

Chrome Web Store

Apple's iPhone is such a phenomenon that few people recall that what makes it so successful—that wonderful app store with its 200,000 third-party apps—was originally not part of the plan. In fact, Apple wanted to severely limit developers interested in the iPhone and provide them with access to mobile web apps only. After much public criticism and outcry, Apple relented and opened up the iPhone to developers and unleashed its app store Microsoft MCTS Training.

Unintentional or not, Apple's success with the app store means that every top-tier mobile platform needs such a store, and Google's version, Android Marketplace, has been quite successful, with over 60,000 apps. Building off of this success, Google is opening a Chrome Web Store that will provide similar functionally for web applications running in Google's browser, Chrome, and its upcoming netbook/cloud OS, Chrome OS.

Alternatively obvious and genius, the Chrome Web Store makes sense because it's currently hard for users to find high-quality web apps. There's no central place to browse reviews and ratings, find popular web apps, or interact with others who use the same solutions Microsoft MCITP Training.

From Microsoft's perspective, the problem with Chrome Web Store is that it's Chrome focused. The apps will run in other modern browsers, but the experience is far more complete on Google's products. Opening its own store won't really solve the problem. Microsoft's own online marketplaces have seen little success, with the exception of the consumer-oriented Xbox Marketplace. That doesn't mean that Google's store will take off, but give them credit for filling a need.