Mobile phone carriers to threaten iPod dominance

seraph

The greatest threat to Apple's dominance in the portable music player business won't come from other consumer electronics manufacturers, but will come from a mobile phone carrier, according to a music executive from one of the big five record labels. On Monday, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman said in a UBS Media Week Conference that it wouldn't be long before operators such as Vodafone become major distributors of music via third-generation networks and cell phones with memory comparable to that of current portable music players, according to the TheStreet.com: "Those network operators, said Bronfman, have advantages such as a secure, piracy-resistant network and distribution base of phone-carrying customers much larger than the 5.7 million iPod portable music players that Apple has sold.

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elektro80 · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:34 pm Post subject:

You heard this on FOX News?

seraph · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:32 am Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:41 am Post subject:

Do you guys get Fox so-called News in Europe?

egw · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:14 am Post subject:

Also known as Faux news.

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:43 am Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:15 pm Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject: