"The first thing you're seeing here is a merger of two different industries with different ideas of launching products." he said. "Steve's perspective is that you launch a product on Sunday and sell it on Monday." he added. Motorola generally like to show upcoming products very early, but as we all already know, Steve Jobs isn't too keen on the idea. Garriques said Motorola is on schedule to deliver two phones that can play music downloaded from the iTunes service this year.
The possibility of storing digital audio on a mobile phone the same way you store it on an iPod or any other digital audio player has enormous potential, as now in a lot of places in the world, everybody seems to have a mobile phone and the trend of always having the best and newest mobile phones hasn't died just yet.
Source:
Silicon.com
Written by: James Delahunty @ 16 Mar 2005 3:21