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That can change in a heartbeat. It has changed many times before.

Maybe it could if Google didn't own so much of the web and it's surrounding ecosystem. I'm not aware of any challenger to Chrome in the browser space.

It could change via legislation. The more Google owns, the more it’s opened to potential anti-trust drama.

So far only the EU is putting their foot down on that front, leading to mostly localized responses by the likes of Google.

We already went down that dead end road with Microsoft in the 1990s. What's different today?

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