That makes a lot of sense. Even without emmodad's post, I still don't see your point, Ham Sandwich. DRM isn't added to files I encode to ALAC or AAC. "Walled garden" is your imagination, or people limiting themselves to only buying from iTunes. So DRM being possibly applicable to ALAC is beyond a possibility, and as far as I can tell, irrelevant. I would be concerned if I were encoding my music to those formats and erasing the original data for some reason. Since I still have the original data, it really means nothing to create a few copies in a proprietary format just to use in one specific player.
So ALAC and FLAC use less battery if a decoding chip is included with the player to take some of the load off the player's CPU. And then?
So ALAC and FLAC use less battery if a decoding chip is included with the player to take some of the load off the player's CPU. And then?