RealPlayer continues to be a competing product. |
six months to a year from now is realistic. |
That's most fun É that, and seeing how the medium changes people's lives, are probably the two most exciting things about what I do. |
There's the growth of bandwidth, and that is a fundamentally positive trend for us, because it allows us to deliver better and better experiences. |
This fascination with the convergence of media and technology -- that's something that's compelled me for probably 20 years, |
This was a watershed year for us. |
Today we're closing one chapter and opening a new one in our relationship with Microsoft. |
Today we're closing one chapter and opening a new one in our relationship with Microsoft. The legal chapter is being closed with an appropriate and fair outcome that sets the stage for a very productive and collaborative relationship between our companies. |
Today's news is an important step in transitioning from illegal P2P sites to legal alternatives, |
Today's news is an important step in transitioning from illegal P2P sites to legal alternatives. |
We are not immune to the current market environment for Internet-related spending, and we've made adjustments to our near-term growth expectations. At the same time, we remain highly confident in our fundamentals, leadership position, and long-term prospects. |
We do a lot of business with Microsoft, we talk to them all the time, we do advance disclosures and all that, but there's no specific contract negotiation right now, |
We don't want to have to make encoding video a political choice, |
We have some hard problems to solve: The applications are quite complex, the delivery systems can be difficult to master, and the applications that were once the domain of high-end users are now crossing over to the mass market. But I have no doubts that we and others (content delivery companies) will be up to the task. |
We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible. |