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Motorola iTunes plans on hold

wnrussell

Mar 11, 2005, 8:03 PM
Delay tied to power of wireless carriers

By Mike Hughlett
Tribune staff reporter
Published March 10, 2005

Motorola Inc. was set to unveil on Thursday its first iTunes phone--a much-anticipated model capable of playing music bought from a popular Apple Computer Web site.

But the Schaumburg cell phone manufacturer canceled at the last minute. And the reason speaks volumes about the balance of power between cell phone-makers and phone service providers, a balance increasingly tilted toward the latter, analysts say.
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Grantizzle

Mar 11, 2005, 8:05 PM
woot VZW.
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wnrussell

Mar 25, 2005, 12:31 PM
Here's another article from Business Week:

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar20 ... »

Verizon wants customers to pay to put music on phones. They think getting a full song should be like getting a ring tone, snippets for which customers now pay from 99¢ to $3, even if you already bought the rights to it somewhere else already.

Before you know it, cell carriers are going to want to control all of your personal wireless devices.
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