No WMA for HP iPod

Posted by michael on Tuesday January 13, 2004 @08:15AM from the acronym-soup dept.

finelinebob writes "In spite of Paul Thurrott's wishful thinking, Wired is reporting that HP will not support the WMA format in its version of the iPod. From the article, according to HP spokesperson Muffi Ghadial, "'We're not going to be supporting WMA for now ... We picked the service that was the most popular (Apple's iTunes Music Store). We could have chosen another format, but that would have created more confusion for our customers.' He added, 'Most customers don't care about the format they're downloading.'" Thurrott's singing a different tune lately, anyway...."

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but what about... by MoFoQ · 2004-01-13 08:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

ogg? that's all I care (in addition to mp3)
Re:the reason by Kenja · 2004-01-13 08:34 · Score: 0, Redundant

So they dont want to limit their customers choices. And they do this by limiting the number of file types they support?

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