Real Networks Discovers The Difficulty Of Having An Open Forum
from the no-fun-at-all dept
RealNetworks seemed to assume that everyone was on their side in their effort to get their downloadable songs onto iPods. They set up a page with an open comments section, officially for people to express their anger at Apple for refusing to license FairTunes. Instead, Real discovered that people can say whatever they want when you give them an open forum and they started bashing Real Networks instead. As you might expect, the open forums didn't last long -- though, expecting as much, some enterprising folks made sure to copy what was on the page before it disappeared.
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It's actually not Apple's fault
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Critical Mass
Second, the idea is pure capatilism. Apple won customers for the iPod not only because it is a great player but also because iTMS is a good service. It is their IP. They own it. They don't have to let any other company get a cut of their revenue if they don't want to. Yes, they do it for partially legal reasons, but control over the service makes sure that they have a degree of control of how good the 'iPod experience' is. If lack of choice was hurting iPod sales, you can bet the iPod would be opened so fast it'd make your head spin. Its one of their biggest single sources of revenue. Anyway, that's my rant.
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No Subject Given
God forbid they actually used the site to listen to the public or get meaningful marketing analysis...nooooo, it's part of a campaign to "educate consumers."
Real is shiat.
Long live Allofmp3.
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