I didn't mean to nitpick. I couldn't tell from the comment if OP was referring to the technical achievements of the Chromium project or was referring to the end-user application (Chrome).

The technical achievements don't really matter as much as the value of having whatever 70/80% market share Chrome has. I'm not saying it's not impressive technically, just that they could've skinned Firefox and called it Chrome and put it on their google.com homepage and gotten a (multi)billion users as well in theory. As long as they could use it for the purposes of driving revenue, that would be a win as well, again in theory.

Same argument could be made for Android Open Source Project (AOSP) vs Android.

Google would not be revoking API keys for Chromium to nerf its functionality if this were not a real issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mo60q5/psa_you_can_e...