[jordand]

There's sadly loads of older Apple and Android devices out there holding back AV1 adoption for years to come. Hardware AV1 decoding only just arrived in the Apple M3+ and A17 Pro onwards, and software decoding has its own big trade offs regardless of the OS.

[dabinat]

The big problem is that Apple disables AV1 support in Safari on devices that do not have hardware decoders, even if those devices are powerful enough to decode in software. I can understand it for a phone, but it seems unreasonable for an M2 Ultra Mac Studio.