On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:57:51AM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
RealAudio. Enough said.
That's not a hate. That's a cop out.
Please explain, for the benefit of listeners at home, why you love the
software known as "RealAudio". :-)
To be honest, I can't remember ever using RealPlayer. This is the
generic proprietary data format hate.
It had its issues, though. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
RealPlayer:
Past versions of RealPlayer have been criticized for containing
features similar to adware and spyware. In 2006 PC World Magazine
named RealPlayer (1999 Version) as #2 in its list of the 25 worst
products of all time, writing that RealPlayer "had a disturbing way
of making itself a little too much at home on your PC--installing
itself as the default media player, taking liberties with your
Windows Registry, popping up annoying 'messages' that were really
just advertisements, and so on."[40] In 2007, it placed RealPlayer,
versions 1996-2004, at #5 in its list of the 20 most annoying tech
products.
Josh
