This week editorialist Sanford May explains how Real web ’s Rob Glaser may be the in effect cheerleader Apple ’s iTunes Music Store never wanted .
state of war , politics , hurricanes , leave about them . I ’ve been watching Rob Glaser and his Real Networks fall flat on their faces . I ’ve been captivated by their maneuvering ; why , you ’d almost guess they did n’t like Apple .
Unbeknownst to most of you , Rob Glaser may be Apple ’s biggest sports fan . I have it on full authority – bald - faced liars , all of them – that on the day iPod was let loose on an destitute public , Glaser immediately scrap Real ’s plans for a digital euphony player all their own . The UnReal , as it was in all likelihood know , run around a massive – for the metre – 40 gigabyte hard drive , 24 hours of barrage fire living on a single billing , and incredible styling that was bruit to look like a interbreeding between a Mini automobile elan and a classical Carver stereo amplifier . But modest . Real small — no wordplay mean . well yet , the software user interface for the UnReal was plan by a squad of Zen Buddhist monks live and working in an undisclosed hermitage somewhere in Tibet , or Schenectady . Only a few have escort the image , but those few may be saying , “ It ’s like it was psychic . Only one button on the goddamn affair , and UnReal just knew my every pick . ” Wow . [ You forgot to mention its holy , healing glow . – ed . ]
But on the twenty-four hours Apple foretell iPod , word has it that Glaser exclaim , “ I ’ve envision the time to come , and we ’re not it . ” Directly he ordered up a couple of iPods , and he ’s been smite ever since .
Apple rolled out their medicine service and Glaser was quick to set Real on get a militant venture intend to make the iTunes Music Store look better than it really is . Glaser knew he had to forge fast or the bloom might come off the rosiness , the iTMS might tank before he could parachute in to help out Jobs and ship’s company . Real quickly turn their corporate backs on conjointly ventured Musicnet , then fussed around under the hood of their notoriously cranky media package RealPlayer , giving birth to the uniquely named RealPlayer Music Store – at Real Networks HQ the undertaking was known as Operation Vive La Apple . Same introductory pricing as Apple ’s offering , but no satiny iTunes port , and no iPod support . Afraid his ploy might backfire , even briefly , Glaser did n’t allow Real to build in any support for Apple ’s Mac computers . A unfeigned fanatic , Glaser would not accept responsibility for tempt avid Mac drug user with a less elegant solution .
Not long ago , Glaser implored Steve Jobs to spread out up the iPod / Fairplay DRM scheme so that other caller could come to the iPod party . Some cry it implore , but remember that Glaser ’s solitary spirit was to show to the bud digital music market that Apple is far and aside the industriousness leader , and all the other freshman services just ca n’t make it without Apple ’s support . keep affair close to his mock - turtleneck in the common mode , Jobs decline to disclose any plans about future licensing of the Fairplay software . On the surface , a failure , but underneath , where the Real patch gets really effective , a high-minded success . Glaser again won the day on two counts , exalting Apple ’s maraud into the euphony biz , and cutting the legs out from under his own Real Networks Music Store by more or less admitting that without Apple ’s engineering Real wo n’t make much noise in the market place .
But this guy is merely lapidify that by some quirk — namely a deal exodus of consumer from good horse sense — Real Networks Music Store might begin to gain some ground on iTMS . To forever preclude that opening , Glaser direct his veridical engineers to copycat Apple ’s Fairplay system , thereby exposing his society and employee to costly litigation and , potentially , condemnable criminal prosecution under DMCA . They call the fruits of their DoL Harmony , although it ’s anything but . To tout the unexampled feature , Real has temporarily slashed prices on its music , down to 49 penny a call . Remember , that ’s 49 cents for a song that will play on your iPod today , but next year wo n’t bring on new iPods , and wo n’t play on your existing iPod if you ever wish to upgrade the firmware in the future . This is pure genius , really . If it does n’t all but drive iPod owner to Apple ’s iTMS in a limo , I do n’t cognise what will .
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