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Real's Rhapsody

real sucks

Originally, I was going to make this post about Real trying to compete with iTunes and the iPod with the newly announced Rhapsody to Go service, and I was going to point you to read more about it via this Playlist article. Unfortunately, every time I try to reach http://www.rhapsody.com to check it out, Real detects that I am on a Mac and redirects me automatically to their RealPlayer 10 for OS X download page. It is absolutely the most frustrating thing ever.

So instead of writing about Rhapsody to Go, I decided to instead simply say that this is one of the most incredibly stupid and anti-Macintosh web policies I've ever encountered.

UPDATE: Here's the non-discriminatory Google cache of what the pages was supposed to look like as of April 21st. Thanks, Rob!