Google Chrome Three Web App Types: Native App, Chrome Page, Bookmark

I’ve been following the development of Google’s Chrome OS and Chrome web browser apps under the assumption that Chrome OS based netbooks might gain traction when they become available sometime in 2011. So far, it looks like there are three kinds of Chrome apps. So, let’s identify them and provide each a label for further discussion.

The first was the subject of some criticism. These are the so-called apps in Google’s chrome web store are nothing more than bookmarks to existing web based services like Google Docs.