> I have no idea what you’re trying to say?

In this case, google can pull off something like OP says because it's dominating the market.

> Also, none of specific reasons people opposed Microsoft’s policies with IE, like it’s attempts to lock people into windows-only APIs (ActiveX etc) apply today.

Chrome implements plenty of chrome only API. They like a standard (or propose one), they implement it, use it on their projects like google doc, and let the competition deal with the mess.