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Real Begs Apple for Alliance
hype7 writes "In a an extremely forward move, CEO of Real Networks Rob Glaser has emailed Steve Jobs, imploring him to open up Apple's AAC Digital Rights Management System - FairPlay - to Real. The upside for Real - all music sold by them would be compatible with the iPod. The upside for Apple - Real would make the iPod its primary device for the RealNetworks store and for the RealPlayer software. However, Mr. Glaser wasn't just dangling carrots - he implied that should Apple not be a receptive partner for an alliance, he would be forced to look towards Microsoft. There was a similar post made not too long ago, with BusinessWeek's take on the whole thing." There's a Reuters story as well.
Good to see someone ELSE is using MS's monopolistic behavior to their advantage.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
http://sarovar.org/projects/playfair/ :P
Dear Apple,
Please please please open Fair Play to use. Please please please. We'll be your best friend. Promise. Plllllleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaassssee! Come on, be a pal! Please please please.
Love,
Real
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Maybe they'll all reject Real and it'll just go away!!!
or does the NY Times photo of Glazer make him look like he lives in a van down by the river?
;o)
And hitting the government cheese pretty hard as well
The Real apple player?
The Fairplayer?
iReal player?
or just call it the RIAA (Real itunes apple authorized) player?
A Fatal OE Exception has occurred, Sig will now reboot.
I'm not sure.
(geek tries to impress prospective female)
geek: "Look at my cool iPod mini, it's wonderful." (hands the device to female)
female: "wow. it's pretty cute. kind of like you. let me play a song. (pushes button). hmmm. nothing is happening...what does 'buffering' mean?"
(girl walks off not impressed)
you have it all wrong. Its more like:
(geek tries to impress prospective female)
geek: "Look at..."
(girl walks off)Douglas P. Price
This sums up why apple should just say "no."
I don't know.
In my experience, the (girl walks off) happens *after* the (hands the device to female), not before.
Morpheus: BUFFERING...and turn a human being into this. (Morpheus holds up a titty that produces money labeled "consumer")
....BUFFERING....
..BUFFERING.. I didn't. I chose not to. ...BUFFERING...
BUFFERING....
Neo looks down and sees a black cat and then BUFFERING.... BUFFERING... he sees it again.
Neo: deja vu
*Trinity and Morpheus turn around quick, the fast movement of their heads producing a blurred mass of pixels*
Trinty: WHAT DID you say? (audio volume goes from high down to low half volume tin-can resonance for some unknown reason)
Neo: I said... BUFFERING... *screp* *scraaW*
Trinity: *screp* *sreeep*.... BUFFERING....a glitch in the codec
FIVE MINUTE WAIT, 86% LOADED.
Cut to an action scene in slow-mo lots of trails and effects behind the bullets. But it's slow mo in the part where Agent Real comes from hiding behind the grocery bag and shoots at neo.... the part that wasn't slow-mo in the cinema. Directors cut maybe... BUFFERING.....
POPUP - WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY REALPLAYER GOLD!
BUFFERING..70% RELOADED...
Neo: but I thought I uninstalled you.
Agent Real: I knew I was supposed to follow orders and remove my files and registry entries but
>(geek tries to impress prospective female)
/. geeks...
I think you overestimate the social skills of
(geek tries to impress prospective female)
Geek: Erm....
Geek: Uh...
(girl walks off)
Integrate Keynote and LaTeX
Prospective adj. Likely to become or be: prospective clients.
Translation: (Geek tries to impress pre-op male-to-female transsexual).
Real Audio will be the least of his worries.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
There's no way Jobs (or anyone at Apple) is going to respond to such a blatant PR move by a floundering company less than 1/10 its size.
Hey, this is the tech industry!
It's beleaguered company, you insensitive clod!
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This matters because Steve, for better or for worse, is extremely nitpicky about presentation and image.
I can just imagine Steve looking at that picture of Glazer, with his Boss Hogg face and "Burberry" tie, shaking his head and saying "Is it any wonder that everything having to do with this player is second-rate?"