Rhapsody on the iPhone
p2pnet news view Music:- The wobbly Apple vs RealNetworks wheel seems to have come almost full circle.
- RealNetworks Statement About Harmony Technology And Creating Consumer Choice: RealNetworks, Inc. is delighted by initial consumer and music industry support for Harmony
- Apple Statement On RealNetworks: We are stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker
The items above are from a p2pnet post which went on, “That’s it – all of it – captured in four PR-speak sentences.”
That was way back in 2004.
There’s been a running battle between Real and Apple and now Real software appears to have finally reached an Apple device.
“The Rhapsody music service has made its way to the iPhone,” says PC World.
Rhapsody for iPhone, giving access Real Networks’ music service, “is now available in the App Store,” says the story. “Rhapsody for iPhone offers on-demand access to nearly any songs you might want for $15 per month — so is it time to put iTunes aside?”
Five years ago, Apple wouldn’t deal with Real to allow music from the RealPlayer ‘Music Store‘ to be ‘transferred’ to music players in general — including iPods, said another p2pnet post, “So Real came up with Harmony to allow people to buy Real tracks and hear them on any player, whether Apple likes it or not.”
Real and Apple live in Never-Never-Land where the Big Four record labels are Kings with the owners of the various corporate music sites and ’services’ — ie Apple and Real — carrying ‘product’ and dancing to their tunes, we said, going on »»»
It’s like Farmer Jones growing the same type of off-colour cabbages loaded with growth hormones and genetically altered so they’re an identical shade of green, and then offing them in a brutal hard-sell to the same grocers. Because the cabbages have been artificially produced, they’re bland, wormy and tasteless but the grocers – packed together in the same shopping mall – are nonetheless trying to sell them at grossly inflated prices to a very small group of people who don’t know any better, or who just don’t care.
In the UK, Farmer Jones would be called a Wide Boy and you’d see him selling off the back of a truck, one eye open for the police.
In the meanwhile, while they wait for the market to equalize and settle, millions of discerning shoppers who long ago figured out there’s no point in trying to deal reasonably with Jones – he’s congenitally programmed to rip them off – are helping themselves to a huge range of tasty, organically grown cabbages and other produce from an equally vast range of farmers.
Meanwhile, “We are working diligently on an Android app and once we’re done there, we plan to turn our sights on more mobile platform and carrier app stores,” said Real in August.
No need to stay tuned.
p2pnet – Apple and Real hack it out, July 31, 2004
all of it – RealNetworks slams Apple, July 30, 2004
PC World – Rhapsody Lands on the iPhone, September 10, 2009
deal with Real – RealNetworks vs Apple, July 26, 2004
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September 10th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
They can keep there iphone because I hate AT&T and DRm and they can keep Rapsody because I am boycotting!
Do like me!