“Apple will let consumers download songs from its iTunes music service over Motorola cell phones, the company said late Monday night,” K.C. Swanson reports for TheStreet. “The new technology will become available on all Motorola mass-market phones in the first half of 2005.”
Swanson reports, “In a morning note, Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich called the deal a ‘net positive for iPod,’ referring to Apple’s portable music player. ‘iPods are the leading portable music player, iTunes is the leading on-line music seller, and it appears Apple understands it has to work with others to dominate the space. Apple could become the ‘Microsoft’ of music,’ concluded Milunovich, who has a buy rating on the stock.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Let’s hope that if Apple does indeed become the ‘Microsoft’ of music, that they do so legally and ethically while maintaining their current high levels of reliability, security, and quality.