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Originally Posted by Gow
Remember MP3 support is more than just putting in the decoder. It is paying for the mp3 license fee, which AAC has no such fee.
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AAC is not free (and it's not owned by Apple, believe it or not). There's a license fee that needs to be paid out to a company called VIA - licensing is about around one dollar per unit. But, there are no royalty fees.
http://www.vialicensing.com/licensing/AAC_fees.cfm
MP3 has licensing and royalty fees, in comparison. Still, I suspect this is not the reason why the DSi does not have a MP3 decoder - something else is going on, here.