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iTunes More Popular than RealPlayer in 2007

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 at 8:35 AM - by

Apple's iTunes media player passed RealPlayer in 2007 to become the second most popular online streaming media player behind Microsoft's Windows Media Player. iTunes was also the only player to show a positive growth rate over the past year, according to data from Website Optimization.

While iTunes showed a 26.8 percent increase in unique users between December 2006 and December 2007, RealPlayer dropped 17.5 percent, QuickTime dropped 8.6 percent, and Windows Media Player remained relatively unchanged.

iTunes passed RealPlayer near mid-2007. iTunes, QuickTime, and RealPlayer are all cross platform media players. Microsoft's Windows Media Player, however, is a Windows only application.

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Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:53 pm

So how do they count if you view WMV using Flip4Mac in QuickTime?

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Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:49 pm

RealPlay has been accused by StopBadWare.org of installing spyware on Windows computers, see this story.

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