They sure are, but what AV1 currently excels at is making one expensive encode to save bandwidth costs on hundreds of thousands of views later on. It's maybe a

They sure are, but what AV1 currently excels at is making one expensive encode to save bandwidth costs on hundreds of thousands of views later on. It's maybe a little early in terms of available computing power (and how optimized encoders currently are) to think about AV1 mobile encoding.