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| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
| Hold the Phone? |
 Coming soon to a phone near you: iTunes.
Well, kinda. Apple has long been in talks with Motorola over a new phone compatible with Apple's iTunes. Presumably, it will synchronize using iTunes easy iPod sync. method, and probably be allowed to play music purchased from the iTunes Music Store (which is currently limited to iPods).
However, there's a number of "buts" in this story. First, and most frustrating is that the wireless carriers - ever thinking of their bottom line and not their customers - are fighting over who gets what features.
Just like Verizon crippled another Motorola phone's bluetooth capabilities so they could force their users to pay the 25ยข/picture fee (which they recently added their own advertising to, on top of the fee), now wireless carriers are fighting over which provider gets which features, so they can force customers to choose between providers based on which features are offered and who has the better rates.
In other words, the wireless carriers are chopping up the functionality that Motorola and Apple are trying to offer, instead of sharing it all. That's why I'm growing more and more frustrated at the business models of wireless carries, and that's why this phone is delayed.
The other "but" to this story is it doesn't actually look like that concept design. It looks rather like most Motorola phones do, although only this one picture has surfaced.
While I wouldn't want this phone, I do believe as soon as battery-life and heat issues catches up to the smaller circuitry being delivered today, we'll see cell phone + PDA + Music + Camera devices emerge that truly do it right, with sizes and comfort that are far better than today's "all in one" devices.
- tollie
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