Apple denies mystery chip is DRM
FRUIT-THEMED maker of exploding laptops and expensive gizmos, Apple has denied that a chip it has installed in the ear buds of its ne Ipod Shuffle is anything to do with DRM.
The 8A83E3 chip, found within the control switch of the new Shuffle earbuds was claimed to be a form of DRM by BoingBoing and the Electronic Frontier Foundation which is designed to force users to buy only Apple earphones. Apple admitted that the chip was designed to make sure that third-party headphones work properly with the third-generation Ipod shuffle, but it did not use DRM.
