"Chrome apps are built on non-standardized platform-and-browser-specific code. That's not how the web and true platform-agnostic web apps are meant to be, it's an affront to the open web standards."

OH GOD.. if Opera is able to support those apps similar to chrome only on a standerized platform, OPERA would automatically be the best browser..it would take the torch! you hear that Opera!?>

They can but hopefully they won't.
Chrome apps are built on non-standardized platform-and-browser-specific code. That's not how the web and true platform-agnostic web apps are meant to be, it's an affront to the open web standards.