Glaser-Jobs battle continues
If Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, had to pick one person whose business practices he disliked, it'd be Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs.
At nearly every opportunity, Glaser will lambast Jobs, who, to date, has refused to make the successful iPod amenable to RealNetworks' music services. It's like watching the corporate version of the sperm whale and the giant squid.
Glaser last year likened the iPod to a vestige of Soviet communism. At the iHollywood Forum Digital Living Room conference taking place in San Mateo, Calif., today, he called the Mac maker deceptive for not explicitly telling customers that iTunes songs can't be transferred easily to other devices.
"It doesn't say anywhere that you have to go through 57 different hoops to play a song on a different device," Glaser said.
He also added that Jobs, one day, will have to think in terms of subscriptions (like Real), rather than selling individual songs.
"The day that they introduce subscriptions is the day that Steve Jobs has the brilliant revelation that subscriptions are a good thing," Glaser said.
