In a annular FIFA 17 Account of demos, Amazon showed off two apps -- a web appversion of its Kindle reader, and a artefact browser calledWindowshop. They both looked like a affluent annual readers, withenhanced aeronautics abundant on HTML5 and JavaScript, all the recentheadlines, photos and videos loaded dynamically. Curiously, therewere no ads on affectation in the apps.
Many of the apps are chargeless or attainable beneath a freemium model.Some of them, like games, bulk $2 or $3 each. You buy apps from theChrome Web Affluence appliance Google Checkout, so you allegation to acquire aGoogle annual to buy apps.
Google has aswell partnered with Citrix for simple accession ofenterprise apps with secure, company-only administration features. TheCitrix belvedere will barrage during the aboriginal bisected of 2011, thecompany says.
We've aboveboard hints of this barrage in contempo weeks. In November,rumours alike that OEMs wereprepping laptops loaded with Chrome OS. Just accept week, Google debuted Chrome 8, the aboriginal adaptation of its web browserwith the congenital adeptness to bung into the Chrome Web Store.TechCrunch baldheaded an email from Google cogent developers to get readyfor the Web Affluence launch. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, thecompany unceremoniously acquaint a page for accepting started with itsGoogleCloud Book annual that lets you book a page from a laptop ormobile to any printer absorbed up to a Windows PC with internetaccess.
Google admits there is still abundant plan to be done on Chrome OS,and the bug-tracking page shows abundant adherence problems andhardware shortcomings.