[dragonwriter]

> They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?

They are the "native" apps for ChromeOS that, incidentally, can also run anywhere else* that Chrome OS runs.

* except iOS

[bergie]

With the Chrome Apps PhoneGap wrapper you can package them for iOS too: https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps