• thehatfox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s odd they bumped the AirPods Pro to “2.5” and didn’t mention it at all. Would have been a natural follow on from the USB-C segment of the iPhone announcement.

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      1 year ago

      I think lossless being exclusive to the Vision Pro along with the iPhone 15 being new and not supporting it puts them in an awkward position when announcing it. Just a theory. And I’m just assuming based on the note shown in the article that the Vision Pro will be the only lossless device for awhile.

      I assume future Apple products post Vision pro will also get lossless. But why the iPhone 15 didn’t… who knows.

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        1 year ago

        Qualcomm’s aptX is the only lossless Bluetooth codec out there. Apple will have to deal with their licensing to get lossless support across their devices and that means a boatload of cash has to transfer hands so Apple will likely be judicial in what devices support it.

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          1 year ago

          You think Apple isn’t using their own codec? I always assumed AirPods used their own stuff when using an Apple device with them.

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            1 year ago

            They can’t. Not now anyway as clearly stated in the article they have licensed aptX. Patents and whatnot likely won’t let them push their own for a couple of years. I’m surprised Apple doesn’t develop their own alternative to BT. They always complain it’s the biggest bottleneck in getting high quality anything over the air.

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              Unless the contract they signed says otherwise, there’s nothing stopping you from swapping out bits and pieces even when you have a license for a collection of patents like for bluetooth components. Sony does it!

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                  1 year ago

                  So what? Qualcomm owns the Qualcomm codec patent. Old news.

                  However, Bluetooth explicitly allows you to add support for custom codecs on both ends, so Apple can ignore the existence of the Qualcomm codec and use their own.

                  Sony is literally already doing that in both their smartphones and headphones with LDAC

                  Apple has AAC

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                    1 year ago

                    Not how patents work. Clearly if Apple didn’t need Qualcomm, they couldn’t have signed the deal.

                    Old news is news.