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May 12, 2005
iTunes phone facts firming up?
Two items of interest for those following the iTunes Mobile/Motorola project:
- I didn't post about those leaked iTunes Mobile screenshots earlier this week because I thought they looked fake. Well, it turns out that they're probably the real thing. And if you needed one more reason to like Gizmodo, when they received a request from Motorola to remove the graphics from their site, they took the opportunity to repost the photos and played the removal request as a confirmation of authenticity. Hilarious. See Motorola Confirms iTunes Mobile Software Launch for July at Gizmodo.
- The Mobile Gazette, a site that knows way more about mobile phones than I do, puts some pieces of the puzzle together, adds some educated guesses, and comes out with what they think will be the iTunes/Motorola phone, the E790. They've got an image of it (at right), and some specs, but they don't seem too impressed by it so far.
I'm most interested to see how this battle over the schema of mobile phone music synchronization will play out. I'm talking about how Apple and Motorola have seemingly designed their phone to transfer music from a local computer (music in iTunes that you already own), versus how the cellular carriers want music to be downloaded and/or purchased over their wireless networks. A lot about this supposed threat to the iPod of the music-enabled mobile phone is dependent on how this works out. I think that if people are forced by the cellular carriers to repurchase music at a higher cost to put on their phone, the threat to the iPod will be neutralized. I mean, what a stupid business model, who is going to go for that?!
Posted on May 12, 2005 10:30 AM | Category: iTunes
