That seems to me now like it was just a ruse to buy them time. They went on to hamstrung the browser from attaining native performance and never added all the d

That seems to me now like it was just a ruse to buy them time. They went on to hamstrung the browser from attaining native performance and never added all the direct hardware features you could get at with apps - which is what they would have done if they really intended the browser to be an app platform.