They also get increased power usage, lesser battery life, higher energy bills, and potentially earlier device failures.
> Better codecs are an overall win for everyone involved.
Right.
Mobile/power constrained devices don't use software decoding, that just a path to miserable experience. Hardware decoding is basically required.
Meanwhile my desktop can SW decode 4k youtube with 3% reported cpu usage.
I like how you padded this list by repeating the same thing thrice. Like, increased power usage is obviously going to lead to higher energy bills.
And it’s especially weird because it’s not true? The current SOTA codec AV1 is at a sweet spot for both compression and energy demand (https://arxiv.org/html/2402.09001v1). Consumers are not worse off!
But, I mean, your expectation is not that unreasonable, computers were quite good by 2013. It is just an eye-opening framing.