More Sun news: Sun promises to open-source Java

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Monday 22 May 2006 13:20, Chanchao wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 08:28 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> > > What are the chances that Apple would make ogg usable on the ipod?
> >
> > beyond low
>
> Keep in mind that Apple also have no incentive to support mp3, which
> they don't own and have to pay fees on just like everybody else. They
> try to shoehorn in their own format (AAC was it?) but from their point
> of view, OGG is not terribly different from MP3 except that to support
> OGG they wouldn't have to pay anyone anything.
They have one enormous incentive to support mp3, the deep dark one nobody 
speaks of. Apple have made a device very useful for those who download music, 
because almost all of it comes in the mp3 format. That is the simple truth. 
It is part of what makes the ipod popular. They would never jeopardise that.

Sasha