Agreed on your first two. I don't understand either of the second. Native app markets are not necessarily a threat to the open internet... only ones that are locked-down "walled gardens." And WebM and WebP are openly licensed specs.
Even if it's not as black & white Google already attempts a lot of this. They basically want to be the ones to decide.
There's no "consortium" it's just "lets push feat ZZ on our websites, web clients, and say its the new feat everyone has to support. Plus its open source anyway we're the good guys!"
If others disagree well, so far it's been pretty much a grey area. Google keeps pushing the technologies others refused. But when Google controls even more of the market, let's say with 50%+ Chrome (they have the market already, website wise, except for FB.), there won't be a need to push anymore. It'll be Google's way or, well, nothing. Even if it's features that are released within 48H.
When you run the second biggest app market in the world it makes you sound like just a bit of a hypocrite.
And my issue with WebM/WebP is that Google just seems to release these standards with a complete disregard for what the rest of the industry is doing or has done.
True openness happens when you have established open standards that everyone uses.
He didn't say that though. It seems like Wired added the Apple part. The only quote in the Guardian article (which I don't think includes the full interview, unless I'm missing the link), just says '"There's a lot to be lost," he said. "For example, all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers. You can't search it."' Which in most cases is a true statement.
> And my issue with WebM/WebP is that Google just seems to release these standards with a complete disregard for what the rest of the industry is doing or has done.
You only see the "established open standards that everyone uses" when you ignore the long painful sausage-making process.
> "For example, all the information in apps – that data is
> not crawlable by web crawlers. You can't search it."'
> Which in most cases is a true statement.
As two examples, though, if the only way to search Twitter is Twitter, and Twitter won't let you search for tweets older than a week or two, then you're out of luck.
More hypothetically, if most people used Wordpress for blogging for the last 15 years, and Wordpress didn't allow indexing by search engines, but only searching on Wordpress.com, we would not have the internet we have today.