Only thing that can compete with native app stores is the web, this means making the web standard even more bloated. If you could install a store inside your b

Only thing that can compete with native app stores is the web, this means making the web standard even more bloated. If you could install a store inside your browser and then buy web apps from there instead, your apps is no longer tied to the operating system, only to the store (that requires a compatible browser) But I don't think it will happened because it doesn't benefit the two major players on operating systems, Microsoft and Apple. What probably will happen is just solidifying the Android based native app as the dominant application platform, now you can develop against the Android SDK and cover 80-90% of the market, both desktop and mobile. If you don't know Java already, it is time to learn. Welcome to the future - poms, jars, classpaths and AbstractFactoryFactory nightmares everywhere, buggy and slow Android apps running over a virtual machine with a user experience not adapted for mouse and keyboard. There will be Hacker News threads about how they miss good ol' Electron apps.