Google is replacing some Android apps in Chrome OS with web apps

Google is replacing some Android apps for Chromebooks with Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). A PWA is essentially a webpage that looks and feels like a traditional app.

This will certainly be good news for many Chromebook owners. In some cases, PWAs are faster and more functional than their Android counterparts. PWAs also take up less storage and require less juice to run.

When PWAs are a better option than Android applications, you know you're scraping the bottom of the barrel. I really don't understand why Google doesn't just turn Chrome OS into a more traditional desktop Linux distribution - they'll get better applications, better tooling, and better performance than shoehorning Android applications into Chrome or pretending a website is an application.