cliveb;665817 Wrote: > personally i think this is bad news. It is the thin end of a wedge that > will see alac slowly surplant flac as the de-facto lossless codec of > choice. I don't trust apple's motives. Just because this particular > release of their codec is now in the wild does not mean future versions > will be. I predict that once apple has rendered other lossless codecs > obsolete, they will "improve" alac and keep it closed source, then > extract lucrative licence fees from all the third parties who have > followed the herd. > > This quote from the article has it completely backwards: > > Rather than everyone else adding support for alac, wouldn't it just be > easier for apple to support flac?
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