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What's more, HTTP's recent movement is arguably only because the web experience has centralized so much around Google.

Google already had the top two most popular websites in the world, so once Google Chrome also became the most popular web client, it was easy for them to develop a new communication protocol of their own, which everyone else has more or less begrudgingly agreed to call HTTP/2 and start deploying as well.

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Google did not write the HTTP/2 spec.

While Roberto Peon is one of the authors (and a core developer of the preceding SPDY protocol) saying that HTTP/2 is some Google invention is a bit of a punch in the face to the IETF and the two other authors who do not work at Google.

So what? Many standards originated from some particular need of one or two companies popular at that time. Look at the current IETF WGs and the authors of the drafts they produce.

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