PBS | I, Cringely . May 5, 2005 - Jet Me to Work

I'm still not using Tiger, but Robert X. Cringely reports that the new OS is showing signs of life in the otherwise God-awful iTunes Music Store:

"10.4 gives us a peek at another evolution of iTunes, which is the inevitable expansion of the system to carry additional audio file formats. Looking at the unused iTunes icons that shipped with your new version of 10.4, you'll notice icons for currently-not-supported ogg vorbis and Windows Media Audio (wma), as well as several others including a variety of video formats, too.

With this new information we can make a pretty good guess about the evolution of both iTunes and iPod. When Apple feels that the success of iTunes is absolutely assured, which will be shortly, they'll address the user complaint that iPod only supports AAC and MP3 audio by adding these additional formats, leading to increased iPod sales."

Can it be so? Is Apple preparing to give serious support for those of us who use Ogg Vorbis? Did my letter-writing campaign actually work? Maybe, looks like it, and probably not, respectively.