This is the kind of market acceptance that can only prove to be good news for Ogg Vorbis. Now, if I wanted to, I could rerip my entire MP3 collection into Ogg, using CDex to rip and now either Winamp or Real to play. I hope this also indicates RealNetworks is truly interested in open source and not just trying to hype things up.
Now if only my MP3/CD Player, one from iRiver, would support Ogg anytime soon I could have a complete solution.
Well that may be true, but Rambus also sat on the JEDEC board and never piped up about their patents that related to the DDR standard, which is why they're being sued for antitrust violations.
It seems that in this case the creator of the Forgent patent may have sat on one of the JPEG committees, so it could be the same situation as Rambus's patent.
I agree, geewhiz tech gizmos suck, especially if they don't show up. Here's the kicker though: most of the stuff that Steve Jobs showed off exists! It's called iSync (to be released later around 10.2), combined with the features of 10.2 and bluetooth. You can buy a DLink DWB-120M USB Adapter to get the bluetooth connectivity. You can buy the Palm Bluetooh SD Card to get your palm working. You can buy a Sony Ericsson T68 phone to get the actual phone part of it working. They even have a MacWorld link embellishing both Apple and Sony on bluetooth. For Apple, this Bluetooth stuff is demonstratable *and* purchaseable.
I don't think so. Anyone who bought a mac before *today* is probably going to have to pay full price (almost like you never bought OS X to begin with).
According to the Apple UpToDate site, you can pay the $19.95 upgrade for users who bought a mac after July 17, 2002, or today. Chances are you can go into an Apple Store, show proof of purchase, and get the 10.2 disc, but that might not be possible since it seems like they're restricting the upgrade pool.
From what I remember, this is different from what they did with 10.1 (another pretty significant upgrade). I think 10.1 authorized everyone who bought OS X to get an upgrade, but I might be wrong. I do remember walking into CompUSA and seeing a stand full of 10.1 upgrade disks though.
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Now if only my MP3/CD Player, one from iRiver, would support Ogg anytime soon I could have a complete solution.
It seems that in this case the creator of the Forgent patent may have sat on one of the JPEG committees, so it could be the same situation as Rambus's patent.
I agree, geewhiz tech gizmos suck, especially if they don't show up. Here's the kicker though: most of the stuff that Steve Jobs showed off exists! It's called iSync (to be released later around 10.2), combined with the features of 10.2 and bluetooth. You can buy a DLink DWB-120M USB Adapter to get the bluetooth connectivity. You can buy the Palm Bluetooh SD Card to get your palm working. You can buy a Sony Ericsson T68 phone to get the actual phone part of it working. They even have a MacWorld link embellishing both Apple and Sony on bluetooth. For Apple, this Bluetooth stuff is demonstratable *and* purchaseable.
According to the Apple UpToDate site, you can pay the $19.95 upgrade for users who bought a mac after July 17, 2002, or today. Chances are you can go into an Apple Store, show proof of purchase, and get the 10.2 disc, but that might not be possible since it seems like they're restricting the upgrade pool.
From what I remember, this is different from what they did with 10.1 (another pretty significant upgrade). I think 10.1 authorized everyone who bought OS X to get an upgrade, but I might be wrong. I do remember walking into CompUSA and seeing a stand full of 10.1 upgrade disks though.