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The only true monopoly Google holds is search. They have a lot of successful products in other venues but nothing that reaches 90%+ market penetration. The only other thing that's close is chrome browser.

Chrome is already starting to get some "google only" features...Like hangouts and Chromecast support. If any of these become a necessity to browse regular sites it will be a defacto monopoly on the web browser market.

Random thought, but one reason I don't like Angular is because it "shapes" your site exactly how google wants it. Much like AMP, this just makes it easy for Google to "borrow" your content for other purposes.

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Chrome actually has higher desktop marketshare than I would have thought, about 60%. [1] But that's still pretty far from a monopoly.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/firefox-overtakes-m...

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Consider the mobile market as well, it outnumbers desktop these days

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Chrome seems to be in about the same range on mobile though, about 50%.