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I think it sucks, big time.

Motorola make horrible UI's, they should have handed the whole project over to Apple.

To paraphrase a line from Seinfeld: "That ROKR baby is breathtaking!" : P

Jobs was just impatient, since the real reason he was there was burning a hole in his watch pocket. Plus he was distracted by his lunchtime plans.

Motorola is still puzzled at the fact that Apple made Motorola pay for the convention center etc. (if Motorola was indeed that gullible) in order to introduce the ROKR; and finally reveal iPod nano which simply overshadowed the ROKR.

MDN magic word: fear. Now Motorola fears Apple might enter the cellphone market.

I still wonder if the ROKR's lack of style was by design. Perhaps Jobs insisted it NOT look cool like the RAZR so that it wouldn't compete on that level with the iPod. This way, if someone buys a ROKR and buys music via iTunes for it, enjoys iTunes on the phone, but decides that they're missing out on the cool factor (not to mention storage which may have been another point of insistence), they'll go out and buy an iPod.

If the phone didn't suck ass, it would be a great partnership. Yet what's been said again and again, the American cell phone market blows huge donkey cock. If they would have introduced the phone with NTT/DoCoMo, it would have been an awesome phone, and could have given them an excellent entry into the lackluster American marketplace.

"This way, if someone buys a ROKR and buys music via iTunes for it, enjoys iTunes on the phone, but decides that they're missing out on the cool factor (not to mention storage which may have been another point of insistence), they'll go out and buy an iPod."

This is the answer — one that's been repeated here many times but that hasn't really stuck. Do people really believe that Jobs wants iTunes-enabled phones to eclipse iPods?

Jobs wanted to get his hands into Cingular's customer base pockets.

it sucks? what do you want them to do, a high end phone for 499..

it's a midrange phone with early adopter capabilities..jeez


Of course there are nicer phones.. they are also at higher prices pfft.

cingular needs to talk to it's other phone providers and get them to include itunes as a possible add on this would cause moto to revise the rokr line and/or add itunes across the entire moto product line.

So much for the peecee knuckle-heads that accuse Apple of being too much "in control" of every damn thing.

Let's see now:

1. Apple builds Macintosh OS X and also builds Macintosh hardware and also builds iApps. The result? The whole thing rocks!

2. Apple builds iPods and iTunes and online Music Store. The result? The whole thing rocks! I see a pattern here.

On the other hand:
1. M$FT cobbles together Windblows, Hell/HP/yada yada cobbles together crap peecees. The result? Good guess - they suck!

2. M$FT cobbles together Windblows Media Player, "Creative"/Diamond/yada yada cobbles together so called "iPod killers". The result? You're very good at this - yes, they are shit!

3. Apple throws Motorola and Cingular their iTunes software for the Moto' ROKR for Cingular's network. The result? Yes, it is shit.

Lessons learned? I'll give up the "feeling" of heterogeneous freedom in return for Apple building me computers, iPods, software and anything else they feel like. Why? They're so damn good at it!

Rock on Steve

What no one seems to be answering is that this phone was delayed several months to come out with the ROKR phone. Why? Because Apple realized that Motorola's designs suck and they changed course to make it Motorola's baby, with iTunes slapped in.

iPhone is coming, it's just on hold until Apple can figure out how to either market it to the mobile phone carriers or set up its own service.