I'm reading "Learning Core Audio: A Hands-On Guide to Audio Programming for Mac and iOS" by Chris Adamson and at one point the author describes big-endian as:
the high bits of a byte or word are numerically more significant than the lower ones.
However, until now I thought the problem of big/little endian only applies to byte order and not bit order. One byte has the same bit order (left to right) no matter if we're talking about little-endian or big-endian systems. Am I wrong? Is the author wrong? Or did I misunderstood his point?
Since you can't normally address the bits within a byte individually, there's no concept of "bit endianness" generally.