{"id":181411,"date":"2010-01-14T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100113\/2257417739.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-14T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:18:00","slug":"rob-glaser-leaving-realnetworks-a-chance-to-reflect-on-how-being-anti-consumer-fails-in-the-long-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/181411","title":{"rendered":"Rob Glaser Leaving RealNetworks; A Chance To Reflect On How Being Anti-Consumer Fails In The Long Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of folks are talking about the news that RealNetworks founder and longtime CEO, Rob Glaser, is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31001_3-10434367-261.html\" >stepping down from the job<\/a> (though will remain chairman, but without day-to-day operational activities).  While several people are pointing out what everyone knows (that RealNetworks has basically disappeared off the online audio\/visual map despite dominating the field in the 90s), there hasn&#8217;t been a huge discussion on why.  Some have suggested that Real just &#8220;missed the boat&#8221; with things like MP3s and YouTube video &#8212; and there&#8217;s something to that.  But a bigger issue may be that so many people absolutely hate RealNetworks because of its long history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleywatcher.com\/mt\/archives\/2010\/01\/rob_glaser_pion.php\" >spreading adware<\/a> through really sneaky and nasty installation techniques that hid the (checked off) approval buttons.  It reached a point that lots of people never wanted to have anything to do with Real ever again.  It should be a lesson for plenty of companies that look at short term profits over providing the best overall experience for users.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100113\/2257417739.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100113\/2257417739.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100113\/2257417739&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=31fb48773eaca895d252eb51d6bbcf4d&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=31fb48773eaca895d252eb51d6bbcf4d&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=E_vu3mvUiAU:bvqny6q-feA:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=E_vu3mvUiAU:bvqny6q-feA:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=E_vu3mvUiAU:bvqny6q-feA:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/E_vu3mvUiAU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of folks are talking about the news that RealNetworks founder and longtime CEO, Rob Glaser, is stepping down from the job (though will remain chairman, but without day-to-day operational activities). While several people are pointing out what everyone knows (that RealNetworks has basically disappeared off the online audio\/visual map despite dominating the field in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}