VP9 support is mandatory in Android. If you want to ship Play Store, that is. So it is not due to mobile Chrome installs. The amount of Android devices dwarfs

VP9 support is mandatory in Android. If you want to ship Play Store, that is. So it is not due to mobile Chrome installs. The amount of Android devices dwarfs iOS devices and Apple knows that it is not viable position in long term. That's why they joined AV1. People in near future would not give a fuck about the Apple, if they couldn't play their Youtube or Netflix videos in 4K on them.