Apple to RealNetworks: No alliance
Posted on April 16, 2004
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From Wired:
RealNetworks’ CEO Rob Glaser asked Steve Jobs for a license to Apple’s copy-protected music format, FairPlay.
In exchange, “RealNetworks would make the iPod its primary device for the RealNetworks store and for the RealPlayer software,” the Times reported.
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Laughably, Glaser threatened to join Microsoft against Apple if his olive branch is rejected.
One word: good. In the streaming media world RealNetworks and Microsoft continue to duke it out to see who can create the worst, crap-laden delivery vehicle possible. Let ‘em partner together - the world could be no worse off.