Real: Can you say, "desperate"?

Real Networks will be offering songs at $.49 a pop. Only problem is they'll be losing money on each song. But hey, they'll make it up in quantity. ;)

The fact is that they know that their market share is going to be going down, down, down, and this is the only way to temporarily flood the tide. But it's a strategy that can only last so long; so they have to be hoping to get to some kind of critical mass that forces Apple to work with them. It seems unlikely, but they have nothing to lose at this point -- except a few cents per song.