On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.comwrote:
I have no idea how many pageviews we get coming from ChromeOS devices,
and
I suspect it's hard to differentiate from regular Chrome visits on other systems? Anyway, sales trends clearly suggest they are becoming more of a niche to pay attention to.
Actually, ChromeOS's User-Agent string reports the OS distinctly as 'CrOS'... so we should be able to measure it pretty easily compared to other OSes.
It might be nice to have an official Wikipedia Chrome app. There are a
few
in the Web Store now,[2] but they're not great. For Chrome OS users, the main advantages of having an app, even if all it does is redirect to the website, is the ability to add it to your Chrome homescreen and the dock.
If you're going to build an OS around the web, "web apps" should really just be fancy bookmarks. :)
I'd recommend against building any specific 'app' for a web-based OS like this, but if we can have a Chrome Web Store entry that conveniently bookmarks us and that makes us easier to use, well that'd be awesome.
I'd also kind of like to kill our current Firefox OS app and replace it with a pointer to the mobile web site for the same reason; we have more features on the mobile web site than on the current port-of-a-PhoneGap-app Firefox OS app, which isn't getting maintained.
-- brion