Originally Posted By: dbrashear
Originally Posted By: DWallach
Maybe Apple was concerned that A2DP could be used as a digital music extraction mechanism.

A2DP quality is just not high enough for that to be realistic.

In theory, it can be high-quality if both ends negotiate direct MP3 or AAC streaming. It's only if that negotiation fails (or if it can't make the bitrate) that it falls back to the lower-quality SBC codec. I don't know whether anything in the real world actually implements that part of the spec, though.

Peter