Google is delaying the shutdown of Chrome apps, but you probably weren’t using them anyway

By wazup on August 11, 2020 Comments Closed / 78 views

Google is delaying the shutdown of Chrome apps, but you probably weren’t using them anyway

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Google is going to let you use Chrome apps for a little while longer, as the company on Monday announced an extension to its planned timeline to end support for the software (via 9to5Google).

If you aren’t familiar with Chrome apps, they’re apps that you install in Chrome that work similarly to apps that you’d launch from your desktop — like this one for read-it-later app Pocket. But they aren’t widely adopted — Google said that “approximately 1 percent of users on Windows, Mac, and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps” all the way back in August 2016 when it first announced plans to wind down support for the platform.