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Real Responds to Apple's Hacking Claims
ack154 writes "An article on VNUNet gives a sharp response from Real regarding Apple's recent claims of Real using "hacker tactics" to allow music from the Real store to play on the iPod. Real states: 'Compatibility, choice and quality are critically important to consumers and Harmony provides all of these to users of the iPod and over 70 other music devices including those from Creative, Rio, iRiver and others.' The article goes on to outline what they say is a 'clear precedent' for what they have done. And in case you were under a rock it all seemed to start here earlier this week."
Probably the same way Apple did with PlayFair. For some reason /. seems to believe Apple is above the rules that apparently apply to everyone else.
They've not hacked anything. They're just encoding their music so the iPod will accept and play it. Thus they have hacked nothing.
Apple's whole problem is that the iPod boosts sales for iTunes and they will probably fight hard to maintain the hold on it. Not to knock on the service but many other services have better interfaces than iTunes does. Napster being one of the best IMO. Now that 2nd generation music services are starting to pop up Apple is probably feeling the screws turning on it and in the american business tratidion lately they'd rather litigate than innovate.
Wouldn't it be shorter to just say "Apple wants a lucrative monopoly over another hardware platform and isn't going to get it"?
May we never see th
Said 'prehistoric' lawsuit is/was the basis for most of the entire past 20 years of computer growth.
And you need to read a little history, you are spouting off things you have HEARD, not things that you know.
And, genius, Firmware (thats a BIOS) IS SOFTWARE.