Google smashed their own toys; the approach was fundamentally flawed from the start, they tried to make a go of it anyway, it didn't work correctly (which they

Google smashed their own toys; the approach was fundamentally flawed from the start, they tried to make a go of it anyway, it didn't work correctly (which they should have known would happen, and were repeatedly told it would), and they tossed out the idea and reimplemented it correctly. It's not "two megacorps" disagreeing, it's "supported interface" vs "unsupported, unstable, system-private interface".