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The Social Customer Manifesto: RealNetworks Jumps The Shark
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RealNetworks Jumps The Shark
(I'd made a commitment to a certain reader a few weeks back to follow up on why Real does things the way they do. Here's what I found. Photo credit to Christopher Chen .)
After listening to Real's most recent conference call , it certainly does appear that Real views its customers as a nuisance and as a necessary annoyance. In over forty minutes of presentation and Q&A, customers were barely mentioned. Instead, the discussion focused nearly exclusively on what Real's competitors were doing, and on the various distribution deals that Real was landing (and losing, such as Major League Baseball ).
Perhaps this is a result of some sort of Rob Glaser myopia. In the ten years Glaser spent at Microsoft (1983-1993), he managed a number of different products, including Microsoft Word. Locking up the channel, and wielding the power of being thrust upon customers (as opposed to being chosen by them) seems to continue to be the M.O. of Real, as it is at Microsoft. This does not appear to be changing any time soon.
What does seem to be changing, however, is Real's focus, which is now not only on music but other downloadable content such as games . Real seems to realize that the audio/video space that they've been playing in since their inception is now crowded, and that they've been pushed to the sidelines in the process. It must irk Glaser to no end that, not only was he rebuffed by Steve Jobs , but now Apple has a 70% market share of the downloadable music market that he and Real, ostensibly, pioneered. So, in what was quite likely a move based more on emotion than sense (and probably driven by "
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