Question about usb support

[someitalian123]

I've been trying to get my ipod working in wine using the usb patch and I've kind of given up on that and just started using virtualbox. I don't know anything about programming or anything so forgive me if this is a stupid question. But I remember reading that wine on mac osx used qemu back before the transition to intel was made and all macs used ppc processors. I haven't used qemu but I've heard it is has full usb support. Would it be possible for the developers to use qemu to some how improve the usb support in wine? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, I don't know much about programming, I'm just curious though.