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My guess is there are power constraints. Higher bandwidth would require more processing power and memory usage which would kill battery life.
by itake 5y ago
My guess is there are power constraints. Higher bandwidth would require more processing power and memory usage which would kill battery life.
- tombert 5y agoThat's fair, I guess they don't really want to force people to have a cell the size of a car battery strapped to their head to listen to music, but it does seem a bit strange to me that a company that prides itself on integrating all their devices to all their other devices didn't see this as a bad PR move. EDIT: Added a "don't" to the first sentence.
- KMnO4 5y agoI once had an old iPod with 128kbps MP3 copies of my FLAC library. I reencoded everything as 256kbps AAC audio (double the bitrate) and noticed the battery life went way up. Turns out those devices had better hardware decoding for AAC.