> Android is powered by native apps, Chrome by cloud apps. Android is powere...

MatthewPhillips on March 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Update from the CEO

> Android is powered by native apps, Chrome by cloud apps.

Android is powered by Java apps (mostly). Java apps run in a virtual machine, just like web apps. Java apps are no more native than Chrome packaged apps.

tmzt on March 14, 2013 [–]

And both get translated into native code by V8 at runtime.