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Musical chairs: RealNetworks makes overture to Apple

RealNetworks is feeling squeezed in digital music and wants Apple to open its iPod to other software. But could the multimedia pioneer instead be pushed into a partnership with longtime enemy Microsoft?

Musical chairs
 

By CNET News.com Staff
April 15, 2004 1:55 PM PST

RealNetworks is feeling squeezed in digital music and wants Apple to open its iPod to other software. But could the multimedia pioneer instead be pushed into a partnership with longtime enemy Microsoft?

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Musical chairs
 

By CNET News.com Staff
April 15, 2004 1:55 PM PST

RealNetworks is feeling squeezed in digital music and wants Apple to open its iPod to other software. But could the multimedia pioneer instead be pushed into a partnership with longtime enemy Microsoft?

Glaser

Real's scramble points to isolation

Powerful strides by Apple and Microsoft point to the digital media pioneer's need for alliances.
April 15, 2004

Will iPod suffer fate of the Mac?

Apple critics again take aim at the company's "go it alone" strategy--but CEO Steve Jobs seems comfortable with risks.
April 15, 2004

Jobs to Glaser: Buzz off

perspective CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says that if RealNetworks' CEO wanted to threaten his opposite number at Apple, he should have avoided using e-mail.
April 15, 2004

Jobs

previous coverage

Microsoft's long-playing business record

Have courtroom battles become just another business expense for the software giant?
April 13, 2004

Real's reality

special report Net pioneer RealNetworks' tussle with Microsoft over streaming-media software is just one of a string of hardships the company has had to face in its 10 years in business.
March 4, 2004

Apple's diplomatic core

special report As the Macintosh celebrates its 20th anniversary, the iPod may define the company's new era of an open strategy.
January 23, 2004