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Apple's iPod Chip Supports WMA?
John writes "Chip manufacturer Portal Player in Santa Clara builds the embedded PP5002 chip in Apple's iPod (allowing the playing of AAC and MP3). It has emerged that the chip firmware, by default, allows the playing of WMA. However, for some reason this is locked by Apple."
LMFAO!
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Ya, I can't imagine why they'd like to prevent the proliferation of a competing company's formats. Very strange...
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
Wait a minute... I don't own an iPod! Or any .WMA files! GAAAH!
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
..they could drop the price on the iPods by not having to pay the MP3 licensing fee.
So you think they should drop mp3 support and just run ogg???
Wow, that's a business strategy. And they say Mac users are delusional....
>>> "However, for some reason this is locked by Apple."
>> How about because they didn't pay for it?
> Because it's a terrible file format compared to MP3, and MP3 is already the standard?
And this, boys and girls, is why you should read the comments twice before replying to them.
-fred
Sign #11 of Slashdot overdose: You see the phrase 'moderate Republican' and you wonder if that would be a +1 or a -1.
Yeah, totally.
And wouldn't it be nice if my ass played OGGs files too? Then I wouldn't even need an iPod or any other player!
Wouldn't it be nice if it had a codec for NewtonScript bytecode? I mean, think about it; if you can have the spec for AAC, OGG and WMA, it is just a small step to get to decoding bytecode, and NewtonScript bytecode is even simpler than Java's. So...
I think Apple is going to come out with a new PDA very soon. It'll be called the iOggtonpod. It'll OWN!
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad