@sir yes, we must all understand this fundamental truth. In snake oil industry, it's not the oil sellers or the oil buyers, it the bottle makers who are at fault. When Doodle company's snake oil has best bottles how can our actual medicine(tm) ever compete??
@namark in this analogy google employees are making the oil, not the bottles. Which I feel is pretty obvious
You think your average web developer is concerned about chrome becoming the standard? You think they cry and moan while (apparently literally everyone at) google is force feeding them? No, they rejoice that they no longer need to support another stupid browser. The so called web platform was doomed since its inception. It was just an attempt to escape the tyranny of proprietary OS, which is why it eventually turned into an OS itself, but you can't fix a foundation by building the right type of balcony. The web would have stayed simple and narrow scope, if the native OS platforms adopted the free software culture.