>Well, your question has more than a bit of a "when did you stop beating your wife"
He beats his wife? For shame!
Seriously though if he wants to be sucessful Real has got to change their neferious ways of intrusive installs... As probably everone on/. knows, when your not so computer savy brother/sister/friend etc... asks you how to install real as they wanna hear some scratchy sound on the net and your response is NEVER EVER EVER install Real Player or anything with "Real" in its name... not EVER EVER. Never. You will just cause your self headaches... If you must install something, find an alternative. The Real suite WAS the closest thing legit commercial software got to being a virus or whathaveyou...
Noticed I said "WAS", and also notice that Glaser mentions some new verion of REAL... well I wouldn't know as I would NEVER (ever) download the stuff, such a bad impression was made upon me it will take a LONG time to regain credibility as a legit company.
You hit the nail in the head. One of Real's problems is to repair their image. Just like netscape/mozilla had to prove to the world that their browser was not as slow as molasses anymore, and the Winamp team had to revocer from the terrible version 4.
I have dared to install the new Realplayer in a windows machine, and I have to say that Real seems to be going in the right direction. The new free player is as unintrusive as anything gets this days. IIRC, you even get a dialog during install letting you deci
I won't that is the point. That is the hurtle that they have to overcome due to the fact that there are so many dis-illusioned with their buisness practices.
OK I may have been exagerating a little bit for the sake of being a bit funny, but if they want me to take another look at their product (after so many years of crap), well it better be pretty ground breaking, get rave reviews, etc... and pique my interest enough to justify my precived risk of touching the stuff with a 10ft poll. Changing the version n
I was absolutely the same way. The girlfriend snuck rhapsody on my PC though, and after explaining that I had asked her to NEVER EVER EVER install anything Real on my PC (she didn't realize it was Real), I found it to be quite nice. Its still installed a few months later and we are paying customers.
Id say have a more open mind, but I found out about the new Real by accident myself. So I won't. But consider it. People learn from mistakes sometimes.
Settle down there, Spitfire. I used to hate Real for all the reasons everyone mentions (over and over again). But software and corporations are not religions. Real Player 10 is much less intrusive than the (seemingly) beloved Quicktime, and for the streams I listen to (http://www.kexp.org) it has the best quality sound. Plus, it has a great interface, and... it's Free. Free as in Real gave away a chunk of code the "community", and free as in, "you didn't pay for this, so you can expect an ad or two".
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He Beats his wife? (Score:4, Interesting)
He beats his wife? For shame!
Seriously though if he wants to be sucessful Real has got to change their neferious ways of intrusive installs... As probably everone on
Noticed I said "WAS", and also notice that Glaser mentions some new verion of REAL... well I wouldn't know as I would NEVER (ever) download the stuff, such a bad impression was made upon me it will take a LONG time to regain credibility as a legit company.
anyway thats my rant.
Re:He Beats his wife? (Score:1)
You hit the nail in the head. One of Real's problems is to repair their image. Just like netscape/mozilla had to prove to the world that their browser was not as slow as molasses anymore, and the Winamp team had to revocer from the terrible version 4.
I have dared to install the new Realplayer in a windows machine, and I have to say that Real seems to be going in the right direction. The new free player is as unintrusive as anything gets this days. IIRC, you even get a dialog during install letting you deci
Re:He Beats his wife? (Score:2)
Past history is important, but the fact that they're trying to move forward is also important.
Re:He Beats his wife? (Score:1)
OK I may have been exagerating a little bit for the sake of being a bit funny, but if they want me to take another look at their product (after so many years of crap), well it better be pretty ground breaking, get rave reviews, etc... and pique my interest enough to justify my precived risk of touching the stuff with a 10ft poll. Changing the version n
Re:He Beats his wife? (Score:1)
Id say have a more open mind, but I found out about the new Real by accident myself. So I won't. But consider it. People learn from mistakes sometimes.
Re:He Beats his wife? (Score:1)