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Are Chrome Apps BS?

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I've mostly been using Firefox and and Edge/IE (for stuff that requires Flash) for the past few years so I never really played with Chrome apps.  I got a new laptop and it had Chrome pre-installed so I got to playing with it.  I saw that there were Word Online and Excel Online Chrome apps so I figured, maybe I can switch to Linux full time and still be able to do formatting correct work while offline.  Just to come to realize, these "apps" are just links to the websites - not even encapsulated websites, the actual website.  It seems like almost all Chrome apps are just links like this - so let me ask, why do they even bother? 

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Chrome apps work perfectly fine for me

Even the word and excel online, although the full desktop version is far better

 

My chrome apps:

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I mostly just use this as a quick shortcut menu

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