Motorola iTunes plans on hold
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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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.