At the same time, I wouldn’t be completely surprised if they did try something like this, though. Evidence of Apple’s behavior suggests to me that iTunes only plays MP3s because MP3 was a widely adopted standard by a significant enough number of consumers (and device manufacturers) that they could not ignore it. I don’t think you could make the same statement today about video file formats.

At the same time, I wouldn’t be completely surprised if they did try something like this, though. Evidence of Apple’s behavior suggests to me that iTunes only plays MP3s because MP3 was a widely adopted standard by a significant enough number of consumers (and device manufacturers) that they could not ignore it. I don’t think you could make the same statement today about video file formats.

At the same time, I wouldn’t be completely surprised if they did try something like this, though. Evidence of Apple’s behavior suggests to me that iTunes only plays MP3s because MP3 was a widely adopted standard by a significant enough number of consumers (and device manufacturers) that they could not ignore it. I don’t think you could make the same statement today about video file formats.

At the same time, I wouldn’t be completely surprised if they did try something like this, though. Evidence of Apple’s behavior suggests to me that iTunes only plays MP3s because MP3 was a widely adopted standard by a significant enough number of consumers (and device manufacturers) that they could not ignore it. I don’t think you could make the same statement today about video file formats.

That’s something Microsoft would do though, oh wait they already have with the XBOX 360. Only on the 360 they opened it up just a little, it only allows streaming of WMV files from only a WMCE computer. The WMCE Extenders are the same.

If Apple where to apply any restriction it would be MPEG-4 streaming, which isn’t too bad but as you speculate just H.264 would suck. But then again it won’t happen that way.

That’s something Microsoft would do though, oh wait they already have with the XBOX 360. Only on the 360 they opened it up just a little, it only allows streaming of WMV files from only a WMCE computer. The WMCE Extenders are the same.

If Apple where to apply any restriction it would be MPEG-4 streaming, which isn’t too bad but as you speculate just H.264 would suck. But then again it won’t happen that way.

That’s something Microsoft would do though, oh wait they already have with the XBOX 360. Only on the 360 they opened it up just a little, it only allows streaming of WMV files from only a WMCE computer. The WMCE Extenders are the same.

If Apple where to apply any restriction it would be MPEG-4 streaming, which isn’t too bad but as you speculate just H.264 would suck. But then again it won’t happen that way.

That’s something Microsoft would do though, oh wait they already have with the XBOX 360. Only on the 360 they opened it up just a little, it only allows streaming of WMV files from only a WMCE computer. The WMCE Extenders are the same.

If Apple where to apply any restriction it would be MPEG-4 streaming, which isn’t too bad but as you speculate just H.264 would suck. But then again it won’t happen that way.