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Real Feels iTunes Backlash
BunkAsInBed writes "CNET reports RealNetwork's recent campaign against the iTunes music network that involved tactics like slashing the costs of their downloads in half, reverse engineering Apple's FairPlay format (Harmony), and recently an online petition and bulliten board have received the opposite reponse that was anticpated."
Hell hath no fury like a Mac user scorned.
There is a difference between "insightful" and "inciteful" other than spelling.
That's some pretty famous people coming to Apple's defense.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
It is sad when a salient point is ruined by vulgarity.
The fuckers.
Film (Quicktime or Real) at 11!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I heard Apple put up a big billboard across the street from Real's main office, with only one word in big bold letters across it:
BUFFERING
- sm
The lesson to be learned from this? Don't mess with Jobs' Reality Distortion Field(TM)!
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Apple fans are nutty.
sulli
RTFJ.
Yeah... Real Player on OS X has second-class spyware, second-class bugs, second-class ability to screw up your system...
Damn them for treating us Mac users like second class citizens!
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Mod me down, you fucking twits. Go ahead. I dare you.
(I read with sigs off.)
Idiots on Internet! Computer users identify obsessively with their preferred platform, act like obnoxious twits in way they would never dare in real life!
Bullshit bullshit bullshit! Free software open supporters work for FREEDOM and openness they do NOT behave that way its contredactory to they are PRINCAPLES thats only CLOSED POLATFORUM AVOCATES do that becaus theyr soul sold to CORPS for SELLOUT GREED!
As a OSS philosapher and coad poet I AM NOT paltform obesed because thats UNFREE and as a member of the Open Sorce COMMUNITY which runs LINUX OR BSD OR ANYTHING THATS FREE I logically CANNOT be identafyod with a plaffermmem!!!1!! ANd OSS is part of the the green and nanti-globolozotion moments bcuause we are FREE!!!!
AND YES I DO BEHAVE LIKE THIS IN REAL LIFE i bet you donnt have theguts to doit.
Heh, maybe their next step will be a new marketing slogan: "Get Real!"
Dude, that was awesome.
"tartly worded phrases"
Tartly....Tartly???
Who uses that word?
I need to add some code to a config file to detect if a dir is nfs mounted or not, then source a file if it is. Can this be done in a few lines of bash?
What kind of pansy bullshit is that? Take your goddamn Wind0ze-coddled, no-doubt-well-muscled gym-bunny ass and fuck off to Kur0shi5 or whateverthefuck it is and ask some goddamn girl to hold your hand while you figure out this pathetically obvious bullshit.
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LEARN LINUX IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE IT ALREADY.
Pissant.
Knuckle-sucking butthead.
Epicene freak.
Stupid adolescent flame-artist.
GO AWAY.
I wonder if we can get an infinite loop* going, where CNET quotes Slashdot, and then Slashdot posts a story quoting the CNET story that quotes Slashdot, and then there's an update, and ANOTHER update, and then the disembodied head of Tom Pabst bursts from your screen and screams something inflammatory to draw more hits!
*Yes, this is Apple wordplay!
See, you aren't what we call a "target market."
UPGRADE TO QUICKTIME PRO?
"Apple's success is based in their loyal, vocal, energetic community.
The linux community and the apple communities are a lot alike in this manner."
I think the term you are looking for here is "fanboyism".
- Toby
> Their jukebox software has never worked on the Mac.
I don't consider this "second class". I consider this "kind of them".
- Relativistic? That's barely Newtonian!
Sell your Real stock now - it's going down. MS now has the power to dispose of Real once and for all.
Real is selling these songs at a loss. MS has a huge cash reserve. All MS has to do is hire some temps, give them a company credit card, and have them buy songs from Real all day long. The more they buy, the more money Real loses. Eventually, no more Real!
Funny you should mention that...
All's true that is mistrusted
I found it funny that one of the offers listed on freeipods.com is for a $0.99 trial on RealRhapsody.
I'm wondering if Real knows this, or if they'll just take it anyway they can get it. You'd think that they would want to steer people clear of the iPod (especially a free one!) with their "Freedom of Choice" marketing and all that...
Perhaps if Real changed their name. Maybe to, oh, I don't know... Gatoria or something...
Russia has different laws than we do. Whoopee. It's their fault, I suppose, for looking like westerners but being part of Asia. You can go into a store in Japan, plunk down a few bucks and "rent" a CD to copy and no one bats an eyelash, but just let those Russians try to make a legal buck on the internet and suddenly it's all mired in allegations of criminal intent.
Quite frankly, I hope the site is run by some Russian mob. I'd sooner give those folks my money than the parasites in Ho-town.
...I thought I could hear Apple... "Why don't you just Think Different, goddammit!"
Unreal Networks...
Like, totally!
lol, that was the greatest rant evar dude.
Complete agreement. So you wanna run for President?
I was going to moderate this post Mac Zealot but I didn't found it in the drop box! Any help someone? ;)
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
If hating "Real" and announcing it on Slashdot as AC without any reason gives you 5 insightful points, why not hate Real?
:)
Yea, I hate Real too, spyware crap! now mod me up!