Excerpted from a longer article from www.anchordesk.com about Apple as a bully. Gives a somewhat different slant on the issue of there being no iTunes phone from Motorola at CeBit
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The deal with the Motorola iTunes phone: no deal
Motorola's been half-hyping, half-promising an iTunes-compatible phone for weeks now, only to yank it at the last minute, right before last week's CeBit Technology Show in Hannover, Germany. So, what's the deal? Well, at first, the always-convenient scapegoat--cell phone carriers--were blamed, with a good story over at TheStreet pointing out that a phone like the unfortunately named Rokr causes an obvious problem for the carriers who are really running the show: you'd buy your tunes from iTunes, not from them. But Motorola confessed at CTIA that it held back the phone after a conversation with Apple. Ron Garriques, president of Motorola's mobile phone division, said the companies differ in their product-release philosophy. Motorola likes to show off a product months before it becomes available, while Steve Jobs prefers to, as Garriques put it, "launch a product on Sunday and sell it on Monday." Apparently the Jobs worldview has prevailed. |
