How to make installable web apps for Chrome

(Sorry, I think this turned into a trolling ramble possibly...)<p>I cannot decide if this matters or not. Seriously, will this matter? I have web apps, I have web apps that would rock in a desktop environment where I didn't have to host the data, or could at least "sync" it with the desktop.<p>But does it matter? Will Chrome matter? Will telling people to install Chrome to install my app be worth it? Will other browsers follow suit?<p>Obviously this has so much going for it. First, it's being launched as a "store" and not just an "add-on" system. I haven't written my apps for Firefox because I need it to financially make sense. Creating something for another "store" does make sense.<p>I can now write apps for Android, iPhone, Palm, RIM, Windows, Mac, iPad, web-based, and other cell phones. Now add "browser-desktop" into the mix.<p>This means I have to write my app in Java with Android's SDK, Objective-C, (uhm?), Java, .Net Pascal C etc, more C, more C, PHP/Ruby/.Net/Python, more Java, HTML5? Uhgo.<p>Good Lord!!! Can I just write one app in Flash or Java and be able to distribute it everywhere PLEASE???

One of those icons looks awfully familiar :)

So it appears this is windows only for now according to this: <a href="http://code.google.com/chrome/apps/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/chrome/apps/</a><p>Which seems so weird considering this is what will make chrome os, at least in terms of the web as a desktop sort of thing.<p>Though they probably did this for other reasons such as a larger userbase to test with or some reason unknown to me, hopefully I'll get to try it soon when it is ported to the other OS's.

Great, more stuff to jam horizontally along my tab bar. Perhaps it's time to start thinking about putting things vertically?

Isn't Chrome's "Create Application Shortcuts" better than this already?