Apple announcement recap

[Larry Sica]

On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:42 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 15-Jan-2008, at 18:05, Scott Lewis wrote:
>>>> This makes the Apple TV a lot more attractive to me, but still no  
>>>> xvid/divx without hacking, which just seems stupid to me.
>>
>> Apple is pushing the iTunes store. That'd be like iPod's with WMA  
>> support - just  not worth it.
>
>
> No, nothing like that.  WMA is a Microsoft format that Apple would  
> have to pay for.  Xvid is open source.
>

open source is not free.  They have to devote engineering time and  
support staff to it.  Is the market large enough for xvid to support  
that?  Apple is also pushing h.264 hard.

--Larry