Google supports AV1 which is royalty-free (to the degree possible, given the plethora of patent trolls out there).
Apple joined the orgs but in the end made the dick move of not accepting a performant, free codec to become standard in HTML5 for purely selfish business reasons.
As far as support for open & free codecs goes, Apple have consistently been total assholes.
If I remember, they were basically arguing against Google as it favored codecs that put costs on consumers, not the servers? Anyone remember this?
I think video patents have pretty much patented all the basics making new standards nearly impossible. So, organizations are stuck waiting to be sued if they adopt a codec. Apple seems to be waiting.