That's the gist of Steve's response to Glaser's death rattle email to Jobs, in which Glaser asked Steve to open up iTunes to RealPlayer.
Then poor Rob threatened Steve - as if he's in any position to do so - and said that if Jobs didn't do what he wanted, well, then Glaser would use Microsoft's technology.
I'm reminded of those little dogs that come roaring out of someone's yard, yapping and frantically barking when a neighbor's out walking their Alaskan huskie or Akita.
Steve and his pals in Cupertino must be laughing their asses off, watching Rob twist and foam at the mouth.
Add RealNetworks to the rapidly burgeoning list of "DeadCompaniesWalking."
Why the fuck would Steve want Glaser to come to his party?
I mean, Apple's got over 70% of the market for selling songs over the internet, and iPod sales are exploding: 807,000 sold in the most recent QUARTER, up from 80,000 a year ago.
From today's Wall St. Journal story:
- Music Rivals Propose a Combo,
Apple Doesn't Want to Hear It
As Apple Computer Inc.'s position in the digital-music market grows more dominant, Chief Executive Steve Jobs has made one point increasingly clear: He doesn't intend to share the wealth with his competitors.
For months, RealNetworks Inc., Musicmatch Inc. and Microsoft Corp., among others, have been publicly calling for Apple to make changes in its key music products, including the hot iPod portable music player, so that they work with music-download sites other than Apple's own iTunes Music Store.
For now, Apple effectively has a closed system: The only portable device on which songs purchased on iTunes can be played is the iPod, and the only online music site that the iPod works with is iTunes.
Apple's deal earlier this year with Hewlett-Packard Co., in which H-P agreed to resell iPods and to distribute iTunes software on its PCs, suggested Apple might be moving toward allowing other companies to use key Apple technologies.
But if there was any hope that Apple, of Cupertino, Calif., might be changing its tune, Mr. Jobs dashed it earlier this week.
"The iPod already works with the No. 1 music service in the world, and the iTunes Music Store works with the No. 1 digital-music player in the world," he said in an interview...
Article comments
1 - elliot
get ready Gates!! Jobs is comin for you next!
2 - Alex
FUCK iPod seriously... it keeps breaking. and don't get me wrong, I love it. but this is too much. The earphones last a week. I got home 20 mins ago listening to my favorite mp3 player. Plug it in open iTunes. And BLAM! "iTunes cannot read your iPod, please restore factory settings." I unplug it. Ipod says it holds 0 songs (I had 2000 that are NOT backed up on my computer or cd's) But still only has 9G remaining. I plug it in my computer. It freezes. I restart my comp and plug it in. It freezes. This is the FIFTH time this happens. I treat my ipod like a priceless vase. I never dropped it, slammed it anything. Apple products seem shit to me. Or am I just unlucky?
3 - same
same with me. my ipod is shithouse. its a 60 gig video. it takes hours to get the dvd into ipod file format and onto ipod. then it slows down every minute and stops for 10 seconds so you forget what was happening in the movie. i have got every error message possible, cant read hard disk, cant update, cant fuckn do this and that. i cant see a disk icon in wondows explorer when i put it in hard disk mode. i uploded 100 photos and watched them being loaded into ipod. i go to photos section of ipod and all i get is fuckin photo settings. wheres the photos ? not in any ipod folders or on the ipod or anywhere.
and steve head jobs is sitting back with my 600 bucks scratching his nuts. fuck that. i wanna smash the time wasting ipod over his fuckin head and forget about it.
fuck ipod and the whole commercial world we live in. the fact that my new ipod hardly ever works sums up where we are heading by buying one. i gave my playstation2 machine away to kids in hospital before i travelled overseas last year. i reckon ill give my ipod to some sick kids too. atleast it kills time trying to get the fuckin thing to work.
fuck that....i'm off to live not die sitting around on a stupid computer trying to get crap bits of metal and plastic to work.
fuck that.
4 - Matt Risi
Well said. iPods are a sickening epidemic in our society, and the worst part is the "halo effect" it creates on all Apple products for their users.. the friggin shrill evangalists touting their claims of how "Macs just work!" and other such nonsense programmed into them by that friggin bitch-tits having, self righteous yuppie they call "The Steve". What the fuck IS that anyway?! His followers think of him as a god, my older brother once seriously had a DREAM he met the guy, and he says it's the best dream he's ever had. It makes me sick to my stomach. Apple products don't "just work", I've crashed programs on my brand spankin' new iMac (brother persuaded parents), and it can't run many of my favourite games and programs.. but oh I forgot.. it just works! I have no idea where Apple worshippers get this idea.. Yes their products are aesthetically beautiful, their interface has some excellent elements, but OSX works a HELL of alot like Windows.. just doesn't run the vast variety of programs available to a Windows machine. Mac zealots relieve this cognitive dissonance by reciting their 10 commandments found on the apple website. Bravo, you mindless follower. Your god Steve could shit inside a metal box with an apple logo on it and sell it for thousands, and you'd gladly pay for it.
I say you're all iFucked.