Those other devices aren't running on battery power, which could be a significant factor. Also, there are many less powerful phones out there which may see gre

Those other devices aren't running on battery power, which could be a significant factor. Also, there are many less powerful phones out there which may see greater benefit. And the "edge device" presumably doesn't have to be the absolute edge, perhaps another part of the edge infrastructure (in my home this could be the server that sits directly behind the wireless AP topologically speaking. And some APs do have significant computing power, they may not be taking about the cheapest router in existence provided by a penny-pinching ISP.