Google says app stores are a dead end but...

In reading this article on Wired, Google Says Mobile App Stores Have No Future it could very well be related to Google trying to convince people that is true since if they are wrong, then what they are trying to promote (web applications) won't be as popular. It wouldn't be the first time Google has been less than honest. Look what they've done with their ad words program, they allow that but they frown on any other type of keyword sales and punish those by downgrading their page rank who attempt to earn money that way while saying it's perfectly okay as long as Google is the one earning the most profits from it. There was a time when blogger wasn't Google owned, where now Google is trying hard to make sure they are the primary one in existence, hence their launch of the Google Chrome browser, it's designed to eliminate both Firefox and IE. I've tried Chrome, but it has some buggy features that I don't like, especially on my laptop when one second longer of a cursor hover makes a webpage open in it's own separate window. I resisted switching from IE for quite some time, then switched to Firefox, which has been more problems recently with crashing. The evidence that Apple has been successful with app stores is pretty hard to discount:

Michael Gartenberg, technology strategist of Interpret noted that Apple’s App Store, which serves 65,000 third-party apps and has attracted over 1.5 billion downloads and 100,000 developers, is a testament for strong consumer and developer interest in native applications.