Archive for 26 July 2004
Off on holiday. Laptop not allowed, so nothing here until next week. Enjoy the peace and quiet…
This could get interesting – RealNetworks have reverse-engineered Apple’s Fairplay DRM so that tracks purchased from Rhapsody can be played on iPods.
It’s something of a test for Apple – if you take at face value that the iTunes store is a loss-leader for iPods, then anything that makes more content available for iPods should be A Good Thing as far as they are concerned. But there’s an equal chance that they’re going to be pissed off at Real for reverse-engineering, so in that case the nastygrams will start flying. But in any case, it’s a situation where Real needs Apple more than Apple needs Real…
