WebM support has been added to Safari 15

For macOS, where you can also install Chrome or Firefox if you wanted to. Not iOS. Not even in beta.

iOS 15 will at least add support for "WebM Web Audio" and "WebM MSE parser"

Just because Google pushes their pet format doesn't mean the industry needs to be their lapdogs.

Please explain to me how Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Opus are still not supported, then. Please tell me why Apple has no answer for a patent-unencumbered format that replaces it. Better yet, please explain why Google’s “pet formats” are evil, bad, or even just not good. I’m tired of hearing this argument. So basically Google made WebM, so we can never have open formats in browsers? How is this really the answer that’s better for the web ecosystem?

Not supporting WebP had some merit, considering there were other answers, but WebM basically doesn’t have any better alternatives. Even iPhones have the necessary hardware to decode VP8 and VP9. Why does Firefox support WebM if it’s so bad for the web? Why is Apple even part of the AV1 alliance without releasing software that supports it?

I don’t like Apple getting a free pass on positive intent because it’s not Google. Whether its codecs (which Apple holds both MPEG-4 and HEVC patents,) or WebGPU shaders (nobody else wanted WSL, but Apple forced it on us, apparently because of SPIR-V IP conflicts,) people seemingly make up excuses for why it’s OK that they lag on standards that nobody else seems to have an issue with. It’s beyond frustrating. It’s infuriating. As a web developer, it’s a bigger problem to me than anything Google Chrome does, and trust me, that’s saying a lot.