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Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas
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?'"
When he comes back to Apple to turn things around, he's Mr. Humble Pie. Now that things are going (for now anyway) he's Mr Usual Arrogant Self. Remember Steve, you're only as good as your last quarter. While from today's perspective, that's a pretty good place, but it hasn't always been historically and there's a good chance there will come a time in the future when things aren't so great either.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Apple's approach is user-centric and user friendly.
As long as you define 'user' as being somebody wearing the latest fashion clothing who is eager to flash the plastic at an Apple Store.
resigned
>As long as you define 'user' as being somebody wearing the latest fashion clothing who is eager to flash the plastic at an Apple Store.
And MS users are stupid.
And Linux users are nerds.
BSD users are uber-nerds.
OS/2 users are old nerds.
Thanks for the productive comment.
"compared to an iPod it's big, ugly, extremely heavy, poorly engineered"
How can you say that when it becomes more and more clear that probably all Mini-iPods need a recall because of the connector between the main PCB and the one with the headphone jack. Expected lifetime is currently 6 weeks for a mini iPod. Talking about good engineering.....
Browsers shouldn't have a back button!! It's all about going forward...
> Apple is about the only one who realized that you can't make money
> by selling songs only,
Then Apple IS a bunch of mindless idiots who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes. Consumer electronics is a low margin/high volume game. The money is in content. Compare DVD sales figures to player sales. Now compare net profits. Or do the same with CD players vs the music industry.
There would be profits for all at $0.99/track if the RIAA would get their heads out of their butts and embrace the change.
Democrat delenda est
I believe that was a future prediction and probably quite an accurate one.
Quick question: Who do you believe has a better grip on market development?
A. A bunch of Mac lovers on Slashdot.
B. The single largest corporation in the world who's pooring millions of dollars into market analysis.
Ding! Ding! Ding! That's right! Microsoft hasn't been worried about any threats from the Mac arena for quite some time. If they were you'd be seeing a lot of Anti-Mac propaganda instead of it all being directed toward Linux.
Macs will always hold their core user base, but it just doesn't have much to offer the average user that other os's don't already provide... as far as the usability hype, I found no difference between Panther and Windows XP. And I'm not alone, 95% of computer users agree that OSX is not worth the cost and that's not going to change anytime soon, on the other hand Linux is becoming more and more appealing with every passing year
And on the side what kind of bastard child of unix can't handle NFS better a Microsoft product....sheesh. Putting linux on my mac was the best thing I ever did.
And they'll cost 500% more than other products.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Weird. I'm pretty sure Open Office, the number one office suite, made popular on the number one operating system, GNU/Linux, works on just about everything, Windows, Mac OS, and tons more. But yes, Steve is being very much like his character portrayed in Pirates of Silicon Valley. You'd think he'd learn something from his past and try to expand by helping smaller companies and working with them to strengthen his own interests, before said smaller company comes over and takes them over, "PWNing" them (to make reference to a previous post). Pfft, such are the fickle ways of Steve Jobs.
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