And on Switch, Nintendo also has their own API, in a similar vein to Sony when they toyed with OpenGL ES 1.0 support.
Well, then Apple users will just see what a Firefox user sees today when they visit Google Earth: Your Browser is not supported.
This isn’t an issue – there’s more people using Firefox, or even more unusual browsers, which can’t use half the web, than there are people using Apple devices.
> [...] there’s more people using Firefox, or even more unusual browsers, which can’t use half the web, than there are people using Apple devices.
Highly unlikely.
In Germany, Apple has a sub-16% mobile marketshare, and even less on desktop. Firefox has 43% marketshare.
Google frequently releases major products without Firefox support, with this only being added months or years later.
This is reality today.
Germany != the World.
Besides, market share of iOS in Germany is ~32% [1], and Firefox ~17% [2], according to stat counter.
And even those numbers are lower/higher(respectively) than those of countries like USA, UK, Australia, Japan etc...
[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/germany
[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/germany
Vulkan being a universal 3D API is a myth - it only exists on Windows (as a second class citizen), Linux, Android, and the Nintendo Switch.