Will Carriers Kill The iTunes Phone?

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So It Was The Carriers Who Stopped The
iTunes Phone

So It Was The Carriers Who Stopped The
iTunes Phone 03/25/2005 06:57 AM
While Motorola's Ed Zander made a gallant effort to cover for the wireless carriers by claiming the Motorola iTunes phone was really delayed due to Apple's marketing strategy, more and more evidence is appearing suggesting that (as most had assumed from the beginning) it's really the wireless carriers who are freaking out that (oh no!) content might somehow get on phones without them getting a cut. This is the classic walled garden mindset of the carriers, and it's exactly what's going to drag them down. While the carriers want to pretend they're music moguls and make sure their hand is one of many in the tiny pie, others are working on ways to route around the carriers. The more complicated the carriers make it, the more it's just going to push users to find other solutions, and then the carriers will be guaranteed not to get a cut at all. Their best bet is to embrace the offerings that are coming along as a way to sell more phones and more service. Stop worrying about getting their few pennies for each song. Even if they got it, it wouldn't last long. Once again, the carriers are showing that they've learned nothing from the internet.

iTunes phone delay: it's not the
carriers

iTunes phone delay: it's not the
carriers 03/17/2005 02:53 AM
Last week's awkward halt to the iTunes phone launch was originally seen as the result of carriers second-guessing their own involvement in music sales. In reality, it was Apple that pulled the plug.

Will Cellphone Carriers Lock Down Phones
So They Can't Use iTunes?

Will Cellphone Carriers Lock Down Phones
So They Can't Use iTunes? 07/29/2004 11:28 AM
By Engadget (via MyAppleMenu)

How to switch carriers but keep your
phone

How to switch carriers but keep your
phone 06/08/2004 10:01 PM
ZDNet Jun 9 2004 1:38AM GMT

Phone DRM too expensive, say carriers

Phone DRM too expensive, say carriers 04/02/2005 06:56 AM
Fragmentation looms

Phone DRM too expensive, say carriers.

Phone DRM too expensive, say carriers. 04/02/2005 03:43 PM
The Register: Phone DRM too expensive, say carriers.

Cell Phone Carriers: Tear Down That Wall

Cell Phone Carriers: Tear Down That Wall 07/30/2004 07:09 AM
People have been saying it for ages, it hasn't changed the short-term thinking of many carriers. Locking mobile phones, both for switching the phone itself to a new carrier and in terms of what applications can go on that phone, is bad for business. The carriers are taking an "operator knows best" strategy to the market, where only they can possibly know what you might want to do with the phone. They're discouraging innovative applications, since only they can approve them. They're discouraging innovative uses, since people can't discover for themselves what the phones may be useful for. They're slowing down adoption by making the phones less useful. The short term thinking, of course, is that they want control. They want control over whether or not you leave them for a competitor, or whether or not you leave their for-fee service and applications for others. However, they're not serving their customers. Customers want open systems. Open systems encourage innovative uses that drive demand. Opening up the phones and opening up the platforms provides carriers with more opportunities to profit, by allowing customers to find even more useful things they can do with the phone. One of these days, maybe the decision makers will get the message. The article linked here talks about a lawsuit to force carriers to open up -- but no matter what the outcome of the lawsuit is, it's in the carriers' own best interests to open up and provide customers with the opportunity to make mobile phones much more useful.

Carriers sold on shopping by cell phone

Carriers sold on shopping by cell phone 05/14/2004 07:32 PM
Verizon is working with Netpace to let customers shop on their cell phones without using a credit card. Other carriers are expected to follow suit.

Consumers Still Hate Mobile Phone
Carriers

Consumers Still Hate Mobile Phone
Carriers 01/04/2005 10:51 PM
The latest Consumer Reports research on mobile phone operators in the US suggests that, well, people still aren't that happy with their provider, they experience plenty of dropped calls and many are hoping that the grass is greener (signal is stronger?) on the other side of the fence (next tower over?). The dropped call issue may be the biggest -- as that's often how people judge the quality of the service they receive. Finding out that 70% of users experienced at least one dropped call in the week prior to the study being done is not a good sign for the industry at all. About the only thing that keeps these rates acceptable is the fact that everyone else is equally as bad, so there's really no where else to go. In the meantime, I don't know if I've just been lucky, but it's pretty rare that my mobile phone drops a call (though, I should admit that it did so three times in the course of one conversation this past weekend).

Big problems for small cell phone
carriers?

Big problems for small cell phone
carriers? 04/19/2004 07:08 PM
About 90 rural cell phone service providers are out of compliance with federal cell phone location, or e911, rules.

Shifting Trends In Customer Ownership
Between Wireless Carriers And Phone
Makers

Shifting Trends In Customer Ownership
Between Wireless Carriers And Phone
Makers 04/21/2004 04:47 AM
Nearly a year ago we had a post where we discussed the fact that many shoppers on the market for a mobile phone service focused on what phone they wanted more than what service provider they wanted. So, if they wanted a certain Nokia phone, their choices of service providers was limited to those who sold that particular phone. A few months later we looked at how the carriers should respond to this and one of the predictions was that carriers would start to focus increasingly on white-label phones where smaller, lesser known device manufacturers would build phone handsets to spec and brand them with the carriers name. It appears that's exactly what's happening. The carriers have been doing their best to take the customer ownership back from the handset makers, and it appears to be working. More and more people identify their phone by the brand of the service provider, rather than the handset maker. Of course, the article uses Nokia and Motorola as the example cases of the big name handset makers likely to lose out - and back it up with Nokia's poor earnings. However, the story was written before Motorola posted very impressive earnings due to their handset sales taking off again. Maybe this is one battle that isn't over yet.

Mobiles kill off more phone boxes

Mobiles kill off more phone boxes 09/03/2004 07:41 PM
Thousands of loss-making phone boxes face the axe as mobile phone use soars in the UK, says BT.

Nigeria - the land where phone numbers
can kill

Nigeria - the land where phone numbers
can kill 07/20/2004 06:31 AM
Dial 419 for Murder?

How to Kill a Cell Phone Dead Zone

How to Kill a Cell Phone Dead Zone 06/22/2005 02:42 AM

I’ll cut to the chase because if you live with a cell phone dead zone in your home (I do), this piece probably has you drooling. The catch is price. These solutions as you will see sounds great, but some are close to $1,000 or involve climbing on your roof. At those prices, I say, keep your land line and put your cell on call forwarding. By Sam Schechner Slate Cellular repeaters are mostly used…

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Nigerian Worried Phone Calls May Kill
Them

Nigerian Worried Phone Calls May Kill
Them 07/19/2004 02:51 PM
An urban legend is making its way around Nigeria that has many people afraid to answer their phones. Apparently, a large number of people actually believe that picking up phone calls from specific numbers will kill them immediately. A list of phone numbers is being circulated, and it must suck if you actually have one of those phone numbers. The mobile phone operators in the country have been trying to get the message out that this is untrue, but apparently it's not traveling too well (one imagines the message is not being passed along via phone calls).

Japanese Telecom Carriers, Pioneers Of
Internet-Capable And Picture-Snapping
Handsets, Have Now Come Up With The
World's First Mobile Phone That Enables
Users To Listen To Calls Inside Their
Heads - By Conducting Sound Through Bone

Japanese Telecom Carriers, Pioneers Of
Internet-Capable And Picture-Snapping
Handsets, Have Now Come Up With The
World's First Mobile Phone That Enables
Users To Listen To Calls Inside Their
Heads - By Conducting Sound Through Bone 01/22/2004 07:16 AM

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"First look at the Motorola iTunes
phone"

"First look at the Motorola iTunes
phone" 04/03/2005 03:08 AM

iTunes phone placed on hold

iTunes phone placed on hold 03/14/2005 04:51 PM
The public unveiling of the first iTunes phone was scheduled for today, but some last minute shenanigans have put a stop to the show.

0401: iTunes Phone

0401: iTunes Phone 04/01/2005 10:59 AM

You should see the flash version! It's so good! Zach Morris, baby, yeah! Shagalicious booty! I want to die so bad right now! Seriously just let me die!

WOR LD EXCLUSIVE! FIRST LOOK AT iTUNES PHONE [MobileMusicBlog]

Motorola's iTunes phone near

Motorola's iTunes phone near 12/19/2004 03:12 PM
MobileTracker Dec 16 2004 11:45PM GMT

Other News: iTunes Phone Issues

Other News: iTunes Phone Issues 03/25/2005 11:07 AM
The huge phone companies may see Apple as a competitor, rather than a partner, for cellphone music sales.

Motorola's iTunes phone revealed

Motorola's iTunes phone revealed 04/01/2005 12:24 PM
David Pescovitz: (AKA Pesco got punk'd.) All week, my friend Carlo Longino of The Mobile Music Blog and TheFeature has been bragging to me that he convinced Motorola PR to give him the exclusive first look at the long-awaited iTunes phone. Carlo said he'd post the photos when the embargo lifted early this morning and I could break the news simultaneously on Boing Boing. So, um, here's that world exclusive. Lin k (Screw you, Carlo!)

Motorola's iTunes Phone On The Rocks

Motorola's iTunes Phone On The Rocks 03/14/2005 05:50 PM

The tech match made in heaven has prompted a hell of a standoff. By Scott Moritz, The Street

Motorola Postpones iTunes Phone

Motorola Postpones iTunes Phone 03/14/2005 06:27 PM
BetaNews Mar 12 2005 11:56AM GMT

Other News: iTunes Phone Whodunit

Other News: iTunes Phone Whodunit 03/28/2005 01:09 PM
"Who put the gag in Motorola Corp.'s mouth just as it was going to unveil a new cell phone featuring the iTunes music download service from Apple Computer Inc.?"

Motorola Previews iTunes Phone at CES

Motorola Previews iTunes Phone at CES 01/07/2005 02:23 AM
According to the eWeek article the phone that was demonstrated by a Motorola executive at an International Consumer Electronics Show keynote is the first of many Motorola devices that will support iTunes this year. Details on the phone itself are still unclear but it is believed that it syncs with a computer and the iTunes Music Store like an iPod does, and incorporates the iPod interface for navigating and playing digital music.

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Motorola Previews iTunes Phone

Motorola Previews iTunes Phone 01/07/2005 12:07 AM
eWeek Jan 7 2005 4:14AM GMT

Where Is Motorola's New Cell Phone With
iTunes?

Where Is Motorola's New Cell Phone With
iTunes? 03/28/2005 01:02 AM

Many industry players suspect that a wireless service provider intervened, essentially telling Motorola, "I'll be darned if I'll sell your phones to my customers if it means they can buy songs through Apple and Motorola without giving me a piece of the pie." By Bruce Meyerson, Associated Press

Apple, Motorola iTunes phone?

Apple, Motorola iTunes phone? 12/19/2004 03:12 PM
p2pnet.net Dec 17 2004 3:07PM GMT

Motorola Delays iTunes Phone Debut

Motorola Delays iTunes Phone Debut 03/14/2005 06:27 PM
Extreme Tech Mar 12 2005 12:12AM GMT

Motorola Postpones ITunes Phone Debut

Motorola Postpones ITunes Phone Debut 03/14/2005 06:27 PM
AP via Newsday Mar 12 2005 4:45AM GMT

Motorola: iTunes phone no-show due to
Apple

Motorola: iTunes phone no-show due to
Apple 03/17/2005 03:38 AM
So why demo the Music Store then?

Motorola's Zander: ITunes Phone on Hold
(AP)

Motorola's Zander: ITunes Phone on Hold
(AP) 03/17/2005 04:08 AM
AP - Motorola Inc.'s last-minute decision to indefinitely postpone an announcement about its iTunes phone resulted from concerns voiced by Apple Computer Inc., according to the mobile-phone manufacturer's chief executive.

Motorola postpones iTunes phone launch

Motorola postpones iTunes phone launch 03/14/2005 06:27 PM
MacMinute Mar 12 2005 12:57PM GMT

Apple Puts iTunes On A Mobile Phone (But
Is There More?)

Apple Puts iTunes On A Mobile Phone (But
Is There More?) 07/26/2004 11:16 PM
Sneaking this in towards the end of the day, Apple and Motorola have announced plans for Apple to put a "slimmed down" version of iTunes on a Motorola phone that will be sold next year. It's not quite an iPhone, as it will really just be like similar MP3 playing phones, with fairly limited storage. In fact, some may wonder why Apple would even bother, since the whole point of iTunes is to sell more iPods. You could make the argument that having iTunes on a mobile phone might make someone more willing to buy an iPod also, but it's a stretch. A more intriguing conspiracy theory would be that this is simply "step 1" in a relationship between Motorola and Apple to build wireless iPods, where they roll this offering out to test the partnership, and then work on a wireless iPod secretly in the background.

Motorola: Apple Delaying iTunes Phone

Motorola: Apple Delaying iTunes Phone 03/17/2005 04:22 AM
It's Apple fault, says Motorola. At least that is the reason Ron Garriques, president of Motorola's mobile phone division, gave reporters Tuesday at the CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans over the iTunes phone delay. Garriques said that his company and Apple have two different strategies for releasing products.

Motorola music phone does iTunes
download too?

Motorola music phone does iTunes
download too? 03/14/2005 06:27 PM
Macworld UK Mar 11 2005 9:45PM GMT

Motorola iTunes Phone Delay Cleared Up

Motorola iTunes Phone Delay Cleared Up 03/19/2005 02:45 AM

Motorola has cleared things up regarding the ROKR's absence at CeBIT and why they pulled their plans to announce the iTunes phone at the last second. Apparently, it stems simply from the differing product launch philosophies of the two companies. Motorola likes to show its products off before a launch whereas "Steve's perspective is that you launch a product on Sunday and sell it on Monday," says Ron Garriques, Motorla's mobile phone division president. The initial speculation that the troubles stemmed from the urging of one or more wireless carriers was quickly put to bed by Ron, saying "I've got lots of carriers fighting to be the first one we go with." It seems that we're just going to have to wait for Apple and Motorola to simply surprise us one day, apparently, this summer.

Motorola Cites Apple for Non-Show of iTunes Phone [Reuters]

Motorola cancels iTunes phone launch

Motorola cancels iTunes phone launch 03/14/2005 06:27 PM
Guardian Unlimited Mar 11 2005 11:36PM GMT
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