Video Store? Sure, right after Ogg Vorbis...

Jordan over at our sibling-site, DownloadSquad, notes that Ars Technica has declared the rumors of Apple offering an iTunes Video Store "official" because of some icons found embedded in iTunes 5.

I, for one, seriously doubt it. Here's why: Exhibit A. Apple can not really announce an effective iTunes Video Store until they have a video iPod. Considering they just launched a brand new iPod line with the iPod nano, I don't think the Video iPod has any chance of materializing within the next 6 months. Exhibit B. Apple has had many odd and various icons embedded in iTunes for many iterations with absolutely no materialization of any utilization of those icons whatsoever. For example, there have been Ogg Vorbis icons for well over a year now, but iTunes still doesn't support Ogg Vorbis.

Why do they do this? My personal theory is that Apple coders plant little distractions like this in the code just to mess with all the rumor and fan sites. Remember when the Microsoft code was leaked and there were a bunch of comments in the code, like "This is a really ugly f-ing hack"? That's the same thing going on with the Mac coders, except they actually *enjoy* the product they are working on, so they build little fun things into it rather than embedding the code with complaints and curses. This is just my theory though. They could announce a Video Store tomorrow for all I know. Nothing surprises me ever since the great Intel changeover announcement of aught five.