Google to kill Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, Linux by 2018
- The company plans to discontinue entire support by 2018
- Chrome apps on already existing devices would stay alive
Google has recently announced that the company will gradually take down its support for Windows, MAC and Linux devices by 2018.
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The company’s statement said that Chrome apps on already existing devices would stay alive and also get the regular updates.Â
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However, the support for new devices will not be extended from the end of 2016.
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Google aims to discontinue its support for half of the devices by mid-2017, and the company plans to discontinue all support by 2018.
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This may look like a massive step by the software giant; however, the company calls it a minor move.
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"There are two types of Chrome apps: packaged apps and hosted apps. Today, approximately 1 percent of users on Windows, Mac, and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps, and most hosted apps are already implemented as regular web apps," mentioned a Verge report.
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Google believes that most of the functionality on the internet is anyway on the web; hence, it is the high time when the users must shift their data. This step was taken by the company as it was a very tedious job to move the entire application on the web.
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If you are a Windows, Mac or Linux user, better find a new browser by next year.
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