It’s hard to pull on over and customers and partners alike without one or both losing trust.  Now that Rob Glaser’s finally been fired from his CEO job at Real, many of us are getting an opportunity to reminisce over the many reasons we stopped caring about Real, Real Audio, Real Networks, Rhapsody, or any of the other brands we should still be using yet abandoned ten years ago.

Side note: you know you really screwed up when you can’t even keep people using the proprietary file format you locked them into in the first place.  Think about it: PDF, MP3, WMV, DOC, XLS, PPT, and RA.  Which of these is gonzo?

Five Really Dumb RealNetworks Moves.

BTW, hiring Rob Glaser in first place would have been number on on my list.