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Rockbox VS Apple FW Battery Life

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Llorean:
On other players Rockbox has eventually been able to get better battery life than the original firmware. This may take a while with the iPods, but given time and work it could happen.

radink:
That brings up another question. Any please understand im not complaining, just asking. I wanted to know why is it that you guys have stabilized other players  over the ipods when the ipod is the dominate player in the market? Is it harder to do, or is there another reason?

dan_a:
It's harder to do, and the ports for the other players were done before the iPod, so the work got finished earlier.

Llorean:
Several reasons:

1) While the iPods sell the most, in terms of hardware many other players offer better functions, and most of the people working on Rockbox buy players by what they *do*, not by how many they've sold, and Rockbox gets worked on by people who own a player that they like and want to improve.

2) Rockbox only came to iPod recently compared to several other players.

3) Official Datasheets are not available for a lot of the hardware, where other players in some cases had some making work easier.

Just because a player is popular doesn't provide any real incentive to come to it. Rockbox isn't being sold for money, and the people who work on it do it because they want to. This usually means working on it for players *they* want to use, and in many cases that's not been the iPod.

radink:
Cool, thanks for the info.

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