[darinf]

Yes they can act unilaterally and with Chrome OS and many popular web apps they do have incentive to care about the web. But will that translate to the Chrome organization caring? It doesn’t make Chrome a more attractive browser to users than other browsers also built on Chromium.

[resoluteteeth]

That's the point. They don't need to care if it makes it more attractive than other chromium browsers. They have features they want to use so being able to unilaterally add them benefits them either way.

If they decide to add new amp integration or similar features, for example, that can give them more control of the Internet even if you are using those features through Edge rather than Chrome.

Seeing Google's goal as getting everyone on Chrome is missing the point: it's just as good from their perspective to simply have everyone using chromium based browsers.

[darinf]

Nope. Chrome usage is free traffic to google.com/search. Chrome usage is the high order bit. The rest is gravy.