Google to Launch a HTML5 App Store to Compete With Facebook's 'Project Spartan'?

That was fast. One of the first things I thought when I heard about Facebook's Project Spartan was "this sounds like it should've been done by Google". After all, they're supposedly the ones that want to promote cross-platform web apps, but I think lately they've been too caught up with native Android applications, and forgot a bit about their main vision - that of web-only apps.

I've been also wondering for while if Google is working on HTML5 tools for mobile. I mean, GWT is not very suited for that is it? And it's probably too complex for that anyway.

I do believe, that just like on the desktop, things go in cycles, from native to web, on the mobile platforms as well. We had native apps for a while on the desktop, and then web-apps started becoming more and more used over native apps. I believe the same will happen on the mobile platforms, too, and Google should be the one to take advantage of that, instead of getting to caught up on native Android apps, because the shift is already starting to happen, and they need to be there early, just like they were with Gmail on the desktop.

So, what is Chrome Web Store? Chopped liver?