alt Hacker Newsto use your analogy you're claiming that half the population has been driving drunk for years and yet you aren't pointing to an increased rate of collisions on the road. This is not the same thing as an individual doing a dumb thing and getting away with it for a while.
Could it simply be because many use their smartphone to browse the web and of those many have an Apple device and Safari based browsers don't support that API?
It's like the eraly claims that MacOS has no viruses. No the bad guys jsut didn't care enough because the ROI wasn't big enough