You can't have AAC support in firmware because slimdevices hasn't paid Apple for a license.
That's one of the prices you pay for adopting a proprietary format. Now if you wanted to pay an extra chunk of money to Slimdevices so they could pay a licensing fee to Apple, you might get somewhere. On the other hand, why should Slimdevices put themselves at a competitive disadvantage price-wise in order to support a proprietary format when there are great, free, lossless formats such as flac available? Indeed, why would anyone have chosen a proprietary format over a free one in the first place- oh yeah, those Ipods are soooo cuuuuute! Will Slimdevices make enough money selling more SBs to apple fans who made the mistake of investing large sums into proprietary format libraries to offset the loss of customers due to increased price of the SB? Will apple license AAC decoders or will they keep their flock penned securely in the Apple hardware corral? Questions, questions.... TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34130 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
