Why the favicon.ico is inside the app/ folder?

[compact sun]

Greetings, i was wondering why the favicon.ico file is located inside the app/ router folder and not in the public/ folder where all the static files live?

Thanks in advance.

[dusky ember]

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[knotty vortex]

Because NextJS docs say so:
https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/file-conventions/metadata/app-icons#favicon

Im sure you can put them in another folder and use a function to tell NextJS where they are but i dont remember the name right now.

[compact sun]

I know that the docs refer to it but i cannot understand the purpose of it, when every react project holds all the static assets inside the public folder, the fonts folder too....

[knotty vortex]

Probably its just a design choice