Chrome sync vs Mozilla Weave

I haven't really gathered any information about this issue. But I'm just gonna continue ranting anyway. Here's the deal! I am browsing the web. I create some bookmarks. Now it is true that you can create bookmarks using del.icio.us but I feel better if it was a more integrated platform specially one that can sync more data than just bookmarks. Firefox add-ons can integrate delicious with Firefox but what about other browsers.

Then came Weave Sync. It is a Mozilla Labs project which is now mature. You can sync your Firefox tabs, history, passwords and bookmarks. You can host your own server of Weave Sync. How great is that.

After a while Google made syncing bookmarks possible in their Chrome browser but it uses their own server and protocols and stuff. And it doesn't sync other stuff.

Now, how hard could it have been for Google to just use Weave as a backend for their bookmarks syncing. Wouldn't it have been much easier. It's a great project. It's open source. It uses JSON as a data format. It would have been great. It would have made moving from Firefox to Chrome even easier for users with all their data easily imported to Chrome and syncing as it did before.

Why not? Maybe Google wanted information about the users, what web pages were they bookmarking. Huh huh? right? Weave Sync encrypts the data so they couldn't use it.

Well anyway there is some good news. There is a project on bitbucket called weaveclient-chromium by philikon. It's developed using python I think so I can't by of much help there but I can't wait for a release it.