Filed under: Earnings reports, SEC filings, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), Time Warner (TWX)RealNetworks Inc. (NASDAQ:RNWK) traded for $12 in December. On a good day, the stock now changes hands at $8. Real is one of the internet stock survivors of the 2000 crash. For one day in 2000, it hit $96. At that time, though, it was in a different business. The company was the only true competition for Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Media Player. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has a competing product called QuickTime, but the battle for the multimedia PC player was between Real and MSFT.As Real started to lose ground, it did two things. First, it used its player platform to build a music and game download business. Then, ...