Apple To RealNetworks: "Talk To The Hand"

[Kent Pribbernow]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0404/139978.html' target='_blank'>http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0404/139978.html</a><br /><br /></div>Apple apparently isn't interested in forming an alliance with rival RealNetworks. <br /><br />"Seattle-based RealNetworks said Thursday that Apple chairman Steve Jobs had rebuffed an offer by RealNetworks' chief executive Rob Glaser to meet and discuss forming an online music alliance involving Apple's best-selling iPod portable players. "The iPod already works with the No. 1 music service in the world, and the iTunes Music Store works with the No. 1 digital-music player in the world," he said. "The No. 2s are so far behind already. Why would we want to work with No. 2?" As first reported in The New York Times, Glaser made the invitation in an e-mail to Jobs last week that suggested that the two companies join forces against their common enemy, Microsoft Corp. He proposed a meeting to discuss the matter this week while he was in the Silicon Valley."<br /><br />I don't blame Apple one bit. RealNetworks's products and services are garbage. Why hitch your cart to a dying horse? If anything Apple should start thinking about working with Microsoft, who is clearly gaining ground. WMA has quickly become the lingua franca for digital audio (outside of iTunes). Supporting <i>that</i> architecture makes more sense.

[Phoenix]

Yes, exactly. Exactly what I was saying in an earlier front page thread.

[Gary Sheynkman]

go apple!

Real = legal computer virus :evil:

[David Prahl]

Apple© is like a refined (but somewhat eccentric) gentleman.

Real© is a "woman of the night". :wink:

[Kent Pribbernow]

Apple© is like a refined (but somewhat eccentric) gentleman.

Real© is a "woman of the night". :wink:

So does that make anyone who downloads RealPlayer a "John"? :lol:

[mrkablooey]

So does that make anyone who downloads RealPlayer a "John"? :lol:

Nope, just a sucker. :wink:

[Steve]

I didn't even know real was still around until it was on the front page. I really have no need for it, heh. I feel bad for real, they are going to dissapear it seems.

[entropy1980]

I think the funniest thing about all of this is that Real threatened Apple to go with WMA if Apple truned them down.... man better buy some jackets Hell must have frozen over! Think about it.... we are talking about Real, a company that specializes in making codecs, who has always been in competition with MS over which codec was better basically undermining their entire business by rolling over and saying basically not only AAC but WMA are superior? Man talk about shooting oneself in the foot!! :D