On 9/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've come across at least one Verizon phone that defaulted to being
>> able to play WMA only ...
>
> Part of the issue could be the patent royalty payments that are attached
> to playing back mp3 recordings.

  Except that WMA ain't free or Free, either.

  My guess would be incompetence on the part of Verizon; they knew
they wanted to be able to charge to play MP3s, so they disabled that,
but didn't know what WMA was so left that alone.

-- Ben
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