Gee. I dunno. When you’re playing in The Majors, it’s kind of your JOB to WIN, ain’t it?
You got it. . . and Apple was under no compulsion to allow other companies' DRM on their players. . . nor were they under compulsion to allow Apple's FairPlay on theirs. RealNetwork hacked Apple's software, a Federal crime, to insert their Codec onto Apple's iPod so their music "Harmony" DRM protected "songname".ra files could be loaded and play on the iPod. When Apple closed the vulnerability in the iTunes and iPod software that allowed RealNetwork's hack to insert their foreign code, the music could no longer be decoded. . . and it could no longer play on the iPod because RealNetwork's OWN DRM blocked it from doing so, as it was intended to do. Meanwhile, Apple's own protection, by contract with their music suppliers, kept DRM music from other sources off. . . but not music that had no DRM.