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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."
To make the, "How do you like them Apples?" crack...
So I kept going, and then this other window popped up saying, "We have deleted all your .jpg's and if you continue your attempts to circumvent our EULA we're going to delete your paris hilton video as well."
Moral of the story: Don't try to reverse engineer the OS that stores your valuable data.
Let's see, we've got a music service that no one uses and a spyware-ridden player that users detest. Let's make a desperate grab at the most popular player on the market so as to save our sorry, mismanaged asses from bankruptcy.
./ will be on our side, because we'll talk about open and compatible formats, even though neither we nor Apple have one.
Oh and BTW, everyone on
Great business plan guys! Give Robby G a raise.
Is this rock and roll, or a form of state control?
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Ah forget it.
Doesn't iTunes need at least approx. 1 million downloads a week just to break even (can some verify whether this number is true or not)? If downloads go down because of Real's Music Store or because of Real licensing Harmony out to third parties, that will significantly hurt Apple's bottom line via loss of iTunes sales and/or potential licensing revenue.
Little Bricklets
...crack... I get it!!! HAHAHAHA! Hacker... crack... HEEHEEEHHEEEE.... too funny.
Rob Glaser is an asshole.
Goodbye Real, time to die.
You must have missed the asterisk.
Don't think that applies to
Anyhow, I don't see what Apple is making a fuss about. Anything that drives more Ipod sales is good for them. Sure they may lose some money in music sales to Real, but so what. The real money is in the Ipod sales anyway, especially with the margins they are getting due to the demand for them.
The same can't be said for companies stuck in the music-only or player-only side of the market, who are operating on thin margins to begin with.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
So you mean he makes $10/yr now? His salary at Apple is $1.
By confusing "missing the point" with "going off topic," you have once again missed the point.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
Yeah, it sucks to have billions of dollars and own the majority of the content that people pump into their brains every day. I mean, how do these people sleep at night?
Oh yeah, I forgot. Very comfortably, on a large pile of money. With many beautiful ladies.
Same difference.
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