I have no problem with app stores existing. I am yet unsure whether app stores piggybacking on the web is bad for the web or just benign tunneling. There is a

I have no problem with app stores existing. I am yet unsure whether app stores piggybacking on the web is bad for the web or just benign tunneling. There is a key difference between this and IE's play for control of the web a decade ago. MS was trying to deliver native Windows code over the web and keep people locked in to their OS. Chrome apps are implicitly encouraged to use web standards and couple to Chrome only when necessary. I don't think Google is trying to hijack the web, I think they are just trying to expand its scope.