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Rhapsody for iPhone: RealNetworks Tweaks Apple’s Tail

Posted on August 24, 2009 |

Reflecting the personality of its combative CEO, Rob Glaser, RealNetworks has never been a company to shrink from a fight. Over the years, it has gone head-to-head with Microsoft, Apple, the record industry, and most recently with RealDVD, the movie studios. But its latest challenge to Apple shows a sense of strategic timing hat has been missing from some past Real moves.

As described by my colleague Arik Hesseldahl, Real has sent the iTunes App Store a free app that would bring the $15-a-month Rhapsody subscription music service to the iPhone.

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