Apple’s attempt to hobble the Motorola ROKR phone with embedded iTunes has been sucessful, and Motorola is droppying iTunes for Linux. The hundres song limit and crappy interface seemed to have doomed the ROKR v1 to an early death.

The new phone has a raft of new features. Included are bluetooth, a headphone jack, 1.3 megapixel camera, FM receiver, and most important: no song limit.

I suppose that’s what happens when you artificially hobble a gadget. The gadget manufacturer simply makes changes to no longer use your software.