March 17, 2005
The iTunes mobile going nowhere
So now we know: the evil people who stopped Motorola releasing the phone with Apple's iTunes software on it were… Apple. By Charles Arthur for netimperative.
That's according to Ron Garriques, head of Motorola's phone division, who told the CeBIT show in Hannover that the California company put the kibosh on the display of a Moto phone able to sync with computers to transfer songs bought from iTunes.
Simply, Apple chief, Steve Jobs, thought that to show it off without being able to sell it was premature."
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