Apple turns down Real Deal
p2pnet.net News:- It would seem RealNetworks ceo Rob Glaser’s offer to form an online music alliance with Apple doesn’t appeal to Steve Jobs.
Yesterday, Glaser said the two companies could organize against Microsoft in the online music business and if that didn’t work, Glaser "strongly hinted in the e-mail message that he might be forced to form a partnership with Microsoft".
However, Jobs seems willing to take the risk.
"He’s [Glaser] in the neighborhood, but whatever meeting Rob wanted with Steve isn’t happening," RealNetworks spokesman Greg Chiemingo told the Boston Globe here.
"Steve just doesn’t want to open the iPod, and we don’t understand that."
Apple executives "declined to comment".
