There have been many AAC sequels already; they're all named AAC. In MPEG terminology they're 'profiles' of the original codec, but they're not necessarily all that closely related.
Proprietary codecs are successful by monetary and other narrow metrics, but I agree it's unlikely any will reach ubiquity again. mp3 got there by accident.
(I'd assert most people using mp3 in the early years assumed it was free, and it was the free software folks who cemented its market. By the time the lawsuits started flying it was firmly established. For the most part the people who treated it as free never stopped.)
Re: Can't really blame them
Date: 2014-01-28 09:42 pm (UTC)Proprietary codecs are successful by monetary and other narrow metrics, but I agree it's unlikely any will reach ubiquity again. mp3 got there by accident.
(I'd assert most people using mp3 in the early years assumed it was free, and it was the free software folks who cemented its market. By the time the lawsuits started flying it was firmly established. For the most part the people who treated it as free never stopped.)