Comment by eru

> Chrome predominantly owns the web at this point. There are few contenders, and making a new browser is a lot of work (see the Verso browser). Google has the arguably unearned luxury of dictating what APIs and protocols the nebulous "web" should use, can throw a bunch of money at adding them quickly, and leave competitors struggling to keep up, effectively buying chrome's guaranteed superiority.

As an example: Microsoft is building Edge on open source Chromium. Are you sure Microsoft is the little guy that needs protection? I'm fairly sure they have enough heft that they can fork Chromium and do their own thing, if Google does anything sinister.

But in any case, there's still Safari with a substantial market share, too.

> "But there are standards committees!" [...]

I agree with you here: commercial standards are more important than whatever a standards committee says.

I agree that Google has a large share in many markets. I just don't see the monopoly.