[hochchristoph]

> Google, through V8, Chromium, Chrome, Chrome OS, Android, and Dart, has a large say in the future of the web platform, browsers, apps, the future of Javascript, etc.

> Time and time again, Google has used their substantial influence and market share to make unilateral decisions affecting the web platform [1][2][3][4][5][6]; the individual merits of each decision notwithstanding, Google can do just about anything and it will affect enough of the userbase that others must compensate or follow suit.

Funny, that 15 years ago you could say the exact same thing about Microsoft. Google's increasingly like the old Microsoft.

[pjmlp]

And before Microsoft maybe IBM or DEC.

What is strange is that many still don't get these cycles. :)