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Pointer Events is a Candidate Recommendation at the W3C http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/

It has 2 implementations (Firefox has implemented in a special branch and is working to port it to their main codebase) and a near complete test suite. Thus it's expected to reach the final Recommendation state soon.

So I don't think the standardization status will change Google's opinion here.

(I edit the PE spec and work on IE)

Touch events for instance are a still proprietary API.

It's a W3C recommendation http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/

AFAIK there was a issue with Apple holding some copyrights on the api,might have changed.

There was a delay, but we worked past it. The web would definitely be a better place if Apple would participate in the input API standardization process though.

It won't become a standard unless there are at least two complete implementations in browsers.