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Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas

Posted by michael on from the suck-on-this dept.

TheJoKell writes "In a followup to a previous article, Apple has denied a meeting with Rob Glaser, Chief Executive of Real Networks, to discuss an alliance between the two companies. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs said, '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. The No. 2s are so far behind already. Why would we want to work with No. 2?'"

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  1. Re:Um... who cares? by weekendwarrior1980 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Real's CEO is a committed progressive and has provided content delivery service to many non profit progressive organizations for free.

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  2. Re:I WAS thinking this was a good idea by Photar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Too bad slashdot doesn't compare messages, I don't know how much horse power it would take but it seems like I see this stuff alot.

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  3. Re:I WAS thinking this was a good idea by MConlon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Out of curiosity, how do you feel about your .sig now? It'd be nice if this post got modded into the basement, since it's a ploy to pad a troll account (see the AC follow-up for details) but according to your .sig...

    Everything is grey. Don't paint yourself into a corner by viewing the world in binary.

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  4. Re:Work with #2? by 770291 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Real's proposal for Apple to "Work with #2"

    Can't understand how they passed that deal up.