Third party apps are on a roll with Google. Earlier this month, they added apps for Google Analytics, and this week at Google I/O, the search giant’s developer conference, Google announced an app store for the Google Chrome web browser.

Says Google:

Google Chrome users who find web apps in the store will be able to create convenient shortcuts in Chrome for easy access. Also, developers will have the option to easily sell their apps through the store using a convenient and secure payment system.

Although the store has yet to launch, you can see a sample of the offerings:

Meanwhile, Mozilla may be considering jumping on the bandwagon, too (via). Right now, they’re just reviewing the underlying principles of an “open web app store,” rather than making plans.

An Open Web App Store should:

• exclusively host web applications based upon HTML5, CSS, Javascript and other widely-implemented open standards in modern web browsers — to avoid interoperability, portability and lock-in issues
• ensure that discovery, distribution and fulfillment works across all modern browsers, wherever they run (including on mobile devices)
• set forth editorial, security and quality review guidelines and processes that are transparent and provide for a level playing field
• respect individual privacy by not profiling and tracking individual user behavior beyond what’s strictly necessary for distribution and fulfillment
• be open and accessible to all app producers and app consumers

These principles—and the timing—seem like an attack on Google’s announced store. Yet these principles all seem to be Google’s goals as well.

What do you think? Is Mozilla a copy cat? Will either web app store take off?

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