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Developers can continue to build Chrome apps and eventually Android apps for Chrome OS, when Google Play store is brought to Chrome OS. However, I agree there is the problem of losing incentive to maintain a native Chrome app from the developer POV.

Yep, ChromeOS developers can feel pretty screwed over. Previously a packaged app could run in any of the hundreds of millions of Chrome (desktop) installations, as well as ChromeOS machines. For example, Windows corporate desktops and Chromebooks.

There is no clear way to port your app to run on whatever conglomeration of features might meet your needs.

Chrome Web Store will continue to exist for ChromeOS.

The Google Play store is also coming to ChromeOS.