I'd also like to see Apple doing what MS is doing, i.e. support everything short of supplying the actual codec, so one could just buy a BD drive and get the codec with the drive.
It wouldn't cost them anything and would only make Steve Jobs eat half a crow. He's eaten crow before. Video iPods, e.g.?
Also it would be a seriously new strategy by MS to actively work against something - their strength is much like Google's, in that they make software that works with everything under the Sun.
And I don't think the on-line retail business is that strong (nor that it will ever be that strong) and if it will, then MS will do their thing - but not exclude physical media. That would then at least be offered in their "professional" or whatever version.
Apple, offers no such concession to professional users. In fact, I have my doubts that Apple even acknowledges their existence (looks an non-Thunderbolt Mac Pro)
It wouldn't cost them anything and would only make Steve Jobs eat half a crow. He's eaten crow before. Video iPods, e.g.?
Also it would be a seriously new strategy by MS to actively work against something - their strength is much like Google's, in that they make software that works with everything under the Sun.
And I don't think the on-line retail business is that strong (nor that it will ever be that strong) and if it will, then MS will do their thing - but not exclude physical media. That would then at least be offered in their "professional" or whatever version.
Apple, offers no such concession to professional users. In fact, I have my doubts that Apple even acknowledges their existence (looks an non-Thunderbolt Mac Pro)