and nokia was (is?) probably worried that they did not have any phones that could decode ogg in hardware.
Anything beyond that, including a W3C-lead standardization of a “free” codec, or the active endorsement of proprietary technology such as Ogg, ..., by W3C, is, in our opinion, not helpful for the co-existence of the two ecosystems (web and video), and therefore not our choice. ..... While not competitive with today’s state of the art codecs, it’s in the author’s personal experience not that far in its performance from Ogg Theora (this technology is what the current HTML5 draft suggests for the same purpose).