It saddens me that a large majority of the "Web Apps" in the Chrome Web Store are just basically bookmarks to existing sites, or as Google calls them, "hosted a

It saddens me that a large majority of the "Web Apps" in the Chrome Web Store are just basically bookmarks to existing sites, or as Google calls them, "hosted apps". I was hoping that more people would develop "packaged apps" instead. I'm debating on whether this latest addition to the Chrome API with have any impact in that regard. I can imagine something like Gmail, where I can install it as a hosted app, but not have to keep a tab open and pinned on mail.google.com. Instead of the favicon trick to see new messages or an extension which adds a button to my toolbar, I can close out of Chrome and the installed app's background window would allow it to still send me desktop notifications of new email. I think that would be a good use for this sort of thing. On the flip side... for a packaged app like TweetDeck, it could pull down your timelines, mentions, etc as soon as you boot up and they'd be ready to view whenever you actually launched the app. Another good use, perhaps?