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Eugene
2004-08-17, 02:08
$.50 downloads and $5 albums, all courtesy of Real's Freedom of Choice (http://www.real.com/music/) campaign.

/me slaps forehead.







If you're on a PC and don't understand, the link takes Mac users here (http://www.real.com/mac/default.html).
ast3r3x
2004-08-17, 06:38
http://www.macnews.com/images/db/realipod

Link (http://www.macnews.com/2004/08/16/realnetworks)

It's a good deal, if I didn't think Apple was going to break harmony soon, I'd upgrade. I mean 2 for 1 with better quality...can you go wrong?

So their plan is just to get as many people to use Real as possible so they complain when they don't work on the iPod?
Barto
2004-08-17, 06:40
Good for them. Why should Apple get to be an anti-competitive monopoly? They shouldn't.
Eugene
2004-08-17, 06:50
Their service isn't Mac compatible, so it's a bit ironic that they're hitting Apple with anti-choice allegations.

Good for them. Why should Apple get to be an anti-competitive monopoly? They shouldn't.
Apple has neither a monopoly on portable music devices nor digital music downloads.
Barto
2004-08-17, 07:53
They will if they aren't stopped. And the extremely proprietary nature of iTMS means Apple can do what MS has done for 20 years: leverage each monopoly to maintain the other.
alcimedes
2004-08-17, 08:18
although i have yet to see a solid answer one way or the other as to whether apple is using Fairplay which is an outside license they bought, or if it's something in-house. i've heard arguments both ways, but if they're just buying a license for someone else's technology, then that kind of blows most arguments out of the water. anyone could buy it, they just don't want to pay for it.

as for a straglehold, they have licensed some stuff to HP and Motorolla, so it can't be that tight.
Eugene
2004-08-17, 08:36
as for a straglehold, they have licensed some stuff to HP and Motorolla, so it can't be that tight.
Some stuff maybe, but in neither case has FairPlay been licensed.
dviant
2004-08-17, 11:43
Real... pffft. Freedom of Choice indeed. Seems like an act of desperation to hone in on Apple's music business because theirs is flopping.

I'm not sure how people see iPod + iTunes as a monopoly. No one is stopping consumers from using Real, Napster, Sony music stores and other players. iPod supports mp3, still the most popular open source format, not like it's iTMS-only.
BlueRabbit
2004-08-17, 14:37
Take a look at the signatures on the "Don't break my iPod" petition Real put up. http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?r4apple

BTW, Real took down that petition, and added a new one where you can't see people's names or comments. :lol: :devil:
alcimedes
2004-08-17, 14:47
Why is [BUFFERING...] Real [BUFFERING...] even still in busi[BUFFERING...]ness?

my favorite one.
stoo
2004-08-17, 16:51
Old, but still makes me laugh. :)
BlueRabbit
2004-08-17, 18:10
Hmmmm…It looks like there is now an anti-Real petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/notreal/petition.html), and it has more signatures than the new one that Real put up. :lol: :lol:
drewprops
2004-08-17, 18:12
Didn't I just read in the WSJ that Real's format is completely UNportable on any device?