Despite recent claims by Motorola’s CEO that Apple was to blame for the failure to demonstrate iTunes handsets rumors are still running rife that it is the operators who are holding it back. “At issue is whether Apple and Motorola leave room for carriers to benefit. Their phone could be loaded with songs simply by dropping it into a cradle attached to a PC, so that music wouldn’t have to travel over carriers’ airwaves. There’s not a whole lot of profit to share, either. When customers buy songs from Apple’s iTunes music store, they pay 99
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