Music phone users differ from iPod owners
updated 08:55 am EST, Mon March 21, 2005
iPod/phone convergence
While the "save-a-pocket logic" of offering consumers built into a wireless phone seems obvious, there are several factors working against such a marriage, reports The Boston Globe. This month, Motorola delayed a phone that could download from iTunes. Analysts speculate that Motorola had faced pressure to drop the phone because buyers would be able to bypass the carriers' pricier music-download services. If people can buy a phone and download music from their computer song collection, ''that's not an interesting business proposition for the carrier," said analyst John Orlando. He also said ''iPod users and mobile phone users are completely different people ... It's a song they want right now ... They'll buy a song for $2 and listen to it for a few days, and then buy a new one." But analyst Adam Benjamin, said an iPod-cellphone combination "is going to take a while to happen. Convergence always takes longer than people think."
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Can they just make a phone I can make phone calls on? You know, without needing to take a power adapter around with me everywhere I go to make up for the incredibly short battery life. If they just took the music players, camera's, dishwashers, etc out of phones and filled the space with battery capacity, they'd have a hot seller from people who don't have time to play with their ity-bity phone toy and actually have work to do.