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Friday, January 16, 2004

Real CEO blasts Apple's lock-in approach to digital music

PC World: "ITunes is only going to be used for playing songs you bought using the ITunes store or ripped using ITunes." Rob Glaser says. "What we have done with RealPlayer 10 by making it universal is create a solution that we think consumers will flock to. Imagine the situation when you buy a couple of tracks from the ITunes store, a couple of tracks from Napster (news - web sites), and hopefully you'll buy tracks from the RealPlayer Music Store. You want it to just work. What Apple is doing reinforces format diversity. Even though Apple is narrowly focused on its one format, its success reinforces the need for people to take a universal approach. We're the only major player that does that."

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