[bmelton]

Define "installation"? My definition of installation is whether or not I can install it on a PC that is locked down by a system's administrator. While it may (or may not) be possible to lock down Chrome from being able to install apps, I've never been anywhere that did, despite those machines being otherwise locked down.

Otherwise, the benefits are

- being able to develop in just HTML/CSS/JS

- being able to deploy to Windows, Linux, OSX, anywhere Chrome runs

- No infrastructure costs to host / distribute (unless your app has server-side functionality)

etc., etc.