Back then, RealNetworks was the king. It had had 85 percent of the market. Everything was RealAudio. They not only had the player, they had the server. Microsoft came into the mix and said, “All right, we’re here with Windows Media and it has 10 times better fidelity, so everybody out of the pool. We’re here to take over.” I’m like, “You’re both wrong. MP3 is where it’s going to be.” And they were like, “You don’t have any media support, no record labels want you. You’re going in the wrong direction.” I said, “Hey, consumers are going to get what they want. And they are going to want MP3.
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Sawickipedia says: Though your point of closed vs. open formats is a fair one - using this quote isn’t that great. Robertson has little if anything to do with the rise of mp3’s and his quote is an revisionist history at its worst. He was an opportunist who leveraged a great domain name into a streaming music biz that was entirely illegal (even if entirely logical and reasonable) who somehow lulled a willing buyer into a $100M deal. But to give him any credit for the rise of mp3’s is a joke.
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