Instant Apps for Android

techcrunch.com

All of the benefits of the web. None of the openness or interoperability.

Hopefully, maybe, this is just Google brand naming an open standard, such as the draft Web Application Manifest standard. [1]

Given the article's insistence that these will still be "sandboxed native apps", I'm skeptical, however.

All of the benefits of the web except it only works on Android. Does it even work in non-Chrome browsers on Android?