Apple, Motorola iTunes phone?
p2pnet.net News:- According to Eddy Cue, Apple’s vp of applications, Apple Computer and Motorola may be close to a mobile phone that plays iTunes tracks.
Will they cost the same exorbitant $1 (or more, depending on where you are) a download? And what will the compression ratio be?
Neither question is answered in the Forbes story that makes the prediction but, "We’ve said we have something coming on this in the first half of 2005 and we’re definitely on schedule for that,” Cue is quoted as saying. “Hopefully you’ll be able to see more about it soon."
The direct PC connection would probably bypass wireless data networks owned by the likes of Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless and SBC Communications, says Forbes, going on:
“Consumers wouldn’t be required to pay network fees to download music.
“That fact has raised concerns among some industry observers that carriers, eager to convince consumers to boost their usage of expensive data networks, might object to phones that don’t need a network connection to download music. Those carriers, who are generally very picky about the phones they sell in their retail stores and what features they support, can easily veto a feature they don’t like.”
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See:-
prediction – Get Ready To Call Itunes, Forbes, December 16, 2004
