The move could render tunes purchased by many iPod owners unplayable on their music players. For the last four months, RealNetworks has marketed its music store as the only Apple rival compatible with the iPod, following the company's discovery of a way to let its customers play their downloaded tunes on Apple's MP3 player.
Apple criticised RealNetworks' workaround, dubbed Harmony, as the "tactics... of a hacker", and warned in July that RealNetworks-purchased songs would probably "cease to work with current and future iPods". Apple offered no further statement on Tuesday, but confirmed that the software released with its iPod Photo will not play music purchased from RealNetworks' music store.
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