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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
And here's the interesting thing: let's not forget that SD is the brainchild of Panasonic. It's every bit as proprietary as the Memory Stick technology, and when someone makes an SD card they have to pay royalties on it to Panasonic. BUT...it's physically compatible with MMC, and that makes all the difference in the world: now you have two formats that work in all sorts of devices, and there's incentive for both MMC and SD to keep getting better. Ultimately that's why SD and MMC will be more popular than Memory Stick or the new xD format.
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You make a good point, Jason.
MP3 is proprietary, as I remember. So is DivX MP4 format (okay, there is a Xvid format out now).
Yet we don't get very angry about those either. Maybe we don't care about propiety as much as we say we do, only when it doesn't work with anything else.
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