> 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.
The licensing fees seem reasonable to me. I am happy to pay a couple of extra $ to cover the cost. http://www.vialicensing.com/Licensing/MPEG4_fees.cfm?product=MPEG-4AAC > 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? I am not asking for the free formats to be removed. It is great that they are supported. This is about making the great player even better and attracting new customers. Similar arguments had been made before wma support was added to the player firmware. Today we can clearly see that it was a great decision. Pandora, Rhapsody, SN support of many internet radio stations, all made possible because of that. > Indeed, why would anyone have chosen a proprietary format over a free > one in the first place- oh yeah, those Ipods are soooo cuuuuute! iTunes customer base is huge, if you like it or not. It makes sense to enhance SB compatibility with iTunes music. Cheers, -- shvejk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shvejk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34130 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
