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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by waon on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:13AM (#23445681)
I'm not sure what you mean by this. It's hard to take Google's push for these sorts of APIs as a push for a "democratic shared platform," let alone see how all this would harm Google in any way.
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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by thinkloop on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:31AM (#23445774)
"Democratic" may not have been the best term to use (edited the original comment), even though, as far as platforms go, the web probably is one of the more democratic ones. I was more aiming for "non-proprietary", "cross-platform" and "shared". Mobile apps are closed ecosystems.

> how all this would harm Google in any way

Owning half the mobile app ecosystem is more valuable than sharing a web.

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