• ultratiem@lemmy.ca
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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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          1 year ago

          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.

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                  1 year ago

                  Are you trolling you absolutely nutjob, OF COURSE if Apple uses a different thing which is not patented because the patent owner DID NOT invent that COMPLETELY DIFFERENT thing then Apple don’t have to pay for patent licensing fees for a thing THEY DON’T USE

                  And as I’ve explained so many times that you have to be illiterate to not have understood the point, Qualcomm is not the only company with a lossless algorithm and bluetooth itself doesn’t limit your algorithm choices