2.0 demand #7: Give me my .wmv

November 14th, 2007

So a friend sent me an eamil yesterday with a really cute movie of his youngest child walking. I was happy to get the email, he has been my friend for most of my life and he and I have shared all the major moments of our lives. However when I went to open the movie it wouldn’t play. Slightly consternated I tried it again getting the same error message. Then it dawned on me, my friend had sent me the movie in .wmv. While this wasn’t a huge problem (after all I could still open the movie at home after I forwarded it to myself (another slightly annoying feature) it was still a pain to have to wait, to have to email it back and then to argue with my oldest daughter about how I paid for both the computer and internet she was hogging and that yes Daddy was going to use the computer even if she was texting her BFF!

So okay Apple help a father and friend out, along with all the other poor shmucks out there running windows. Make the iPhone able to open .WMV files Please!!

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