Sure. To use, participate in, and build upon this "open standard", you (or your team) just have to keep up with some of the most well-paid (presumably for a reason) programmers in the world, and then hope they see Chromium as an open standard worthy of pull requests as well.
It's not unthinkable for a browser project to work the same way.
Sorry about the autocorrect error. It's too late to change it
> In contrast, Apple competing with USB with their own connectivity standard has a negative impact on basically everyone.
Does it? I haven't ever been negatively affected or even affected at all as far as I can tell, I happen not to use Apple products or interact with the Apple ecosystem much.
What would these effects be?
"My phone's dead, can I borrow your charger?"
"Sorry, I have an iPhone."
A business monopoly is bad, but a technological monopoly is often just a standard.
Nobody gets upset because every OS under the sun uses OpenSSH rather than competing with their own implementation.
In contrast, Apple competing with USB with their own connectivity standard has a negative impact on basically everyone.
Spin the Chromium project off of being in direct control by Google and into an industry organization and I’d be happy to settle on one browser engine.
Heck, if my iPhone got to use Chromium it would be an improvement.
All the proprietary corporate stuff on top of Chromium isn’t part of the open source project, anyway.