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."

Comments

I keep waiting for Real...

[craenor]

To make the, "How do you like them Apples?" crack...

Re:Hacker tactics?

[pHatidic]

I remember when I tried to reverse engineer Microsoft Windows. First the window popped up saying "Quit Attempting to Reverse Engineer Windows!"

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.

Real is also all about the profit...

[commander salamander]

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.

Oh and BTW, everyone on ./ will be on our side, because we'll talk about open and compatible formats, even though neither we nor Apple have one.

Great business plan guys! Give Robby G a raise.