"RP does NOT charge for Updates..." RP+ DOES so (about every 6mo)!
That's why I used the MS example; it points out what a marketing scam it is when someone DOES do that (RP+ tried to hold my folder hostage if I didn't pay *again* for the continued use of what I'd been told was a one-time purchase price---get it?! That would be akin to MS charging for patches, with BSOD if you don't pay up. You sound more and more like desperate 'damage control' from Real, sent to this article to provide a mention of your product SINCE IT WAS EXCLUDED FROM THE AUTHOR'S LIST OF DOWNLOADERS. That's because he listed those "WORTH A LOOK".
No amount of attempted 'deconstruction' of my post can alter my first-person experience with RealPlayer. The more you attempt to refute my own experience to me(!) with BS, the more obvious it is that you have a more serious stake in *refuting* (LMAO) a bad experience I had with a vendor than, say 'desultory chatter'.
What's more likely, folks: TR's hippiekarl slandering a vendor (if what I said isn't true), or RealPlayer shills trolling a blog which refused to call their product "worth looking at"?! They were already trying to get it face-time in the "Comments" before I mentioned my own experience with their reprehensibly strong-armed marketing strategy. Now look at them, patting each other on the back, spamming their product's link....
