I understand how they got to this point, but I hope you understand that fifteen years ago, Google would've lead the charge to make these things a standard, and today they will sit inside their moat behind their castle walls and ensure even the standard someone else built for them doesn't succeed because openness is harmful to their bottom line.
I do get your point, but I also wonder if this could be the exception rather than the rule. Google still appears very active in setting web standards and contributing a lot of open technology and standards.
I would say that Google is active in setting web standards that help Google, less so setting web standards that help anyone else. Which, for what it's worth, is capitalism, but unregulated monopoly remains a fundamental flaw in the design of capitalism.
