But Google continuously updates Google Play Services on my phone without me even noticing, let alone the carrier or the device manufacturer approve and test the changes.

In the same way, they could update the WebView as well (hadn't they put it into a read-only file system, digitally signed by the device manufacturer). It's a userspace component with no implications on the phone service or the radio baseband.

In fact, IIRC the WebView can be updated through the market in the newer versions of Android.

The very same things can be said about Islamist terror. Ignorant people are being maneuvered by virtual caliphs who wish to become actual ones. Every human conflict in history can be reduced to a matter of "us vs them", with a "flag" motivation covering the real, always political, one.

I can't speak to Islam, but what I do know is that Christians who use violence to spread their views can not be considered Christians.

The quran, too, prescribes tolerance towards Hebrew and Christians. And christian holy scriptures contain incitements to violence, too:

Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, and so ye sin against the LORD your God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...

The place was subject to armed surveillance but the terrorists managed to slaughter the cops, too. Your sarcasm is therefore out of place, and anyway, choosing such an occasion for an attempt at gun propaganda shows bad taste and lack of compassion. You're not doing a good service in your cause, IMHO.

Google has a dominant position (among other places) in the browser market so site owners can't disregard their imposition. Saying that you can install other browsers would have been just like saying "you can install another OS" when Microsoft played leverage games with their near monopoly on the desktop back in the times. Plus, Chrome tends to end up installed on the PCs of many unexperienced users because of their policy of aggressive bundling. So one can expect that a relevant portion of his site's visitors will be using Chrome in the foreseeable future no matter what.