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Hacking the iPod Firmware
skreuzer writes "Earlier in the week, someone figured out how to get all the fonts and graphics off the iPod's firmware. Today, Engadget has an article that details on how to mod your own iPod's firmware and display just about any graphic for icons such as power, battery, status, etc."
Instead of making cosmetic changes like this, if someone out there is clever enough to get into the firmware of the iPod, add some useful features, perhaps the holy grail of the iPod, in my opinion. Ogg support. T .ogg, and to have to convert it because Apple is stubborn is not my idea of a good time.
he fact that Apple can embrace BSD for their core, and have things interoperate rather well, yet leave this part out, when numerous listening tests have shown that Ogg Vorbis has better sound quality as equivalent bitrates than ANY lossy compression scheme, is just plain annoying, and is the single reason I havent bought an iPod. My whole music collection is ripped in
"See, we plan ahead! That way, we never have to do anything now."
"All of a sudden it started crashing, and it kept flashing 'WMA ONLY' on the screen! What's going on here?"
SNACKS ARE AWESOME
I'll tell you why it is funny. Because OGG fanboys are a joke. You are a typical example. You have an overinflated sense how your music player choice has impacted the world. Let me tell you who cares that you chose the iRiver. No one. You are a sad little man.
No, that's crap - isn't this the same Apple that blocked access to a specific 3rd-party app in the 4.7 build of iTunes? Everyone likes to hold Apple up as the standard of tight hardware integration since they control the platform. Is it any wonder they would leverage it to make hacking their products a bit harder to do on Apple hardware?
This time I could be arsed.
I'll tell you why it is funny. Because Apple fanboys are a joke. You are a typical example. You have an overinflated sense how your music player choice has impacted the world. Let me tell you who cares that you chose the iPod. No one. You are a sad little man.