A fair amount of people have complained that they switched to Chrome from Firefox because FF is overly bloated, takes a long time to start up, and so on. Seems to me that a browser that also runs separate apps like this would take a considerable hit in load times and performance.
Chrome does really well to make sure that one tab doesn't interfere with another. Furthermore these paid apps would only load when you want to use them. Why would running a paid app in a tab have anything to do with startup time or performance?
Yes. But it's not just that. The key is that the user is buying an app that essentially get's "installed' onto his computer like a traditional application.
I'll be interested into seeing what happens if a user wants to install an app while browsing with IE. Will the App store download and install Chrome, and set Chrome up just to run the app?
