Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent: Calling Bunny Huang. Bunny Huang to the white courtesy iPod.:
Here’s fun. This article argues that the iPod is based on a chip capable, by default, of playing Windows Media files – but Apple have disabled the feature. Other players built on the same chip could also, if not fiddled with, play AAC files. Hence and therefore, the whole iTunes Music Store .v. Everyone Else what-format-will-you-buy thing is contrived.
The followup comments with the article are worth a read: not everyone believes in the overwhelming superiority of WMA (the best comment was the one referring to it as a “lawyer’s format.”)