Motorola’s iRadio Music Service

Hmmm, could the Motorola-Apple partnership with the iTunes-enabled ROKR phone be on the rocks already? So the ROKR wasn’t wildly successful as originally hoped, but now Motorola’s next version of the ROKR, the E2, will not include iTunes. It’ll be serviced by Motorola’s own iRadio subscription music service, sorta satellite radio-ish.

You would think with a name like “iRadio,” iTunes or Apple would be involved somehow. Or perhaps, is there something else affecting this partnership? Something like an Apple cell phone (iPhone) or a broader-based iTunes multimedia service, especially with mistakes like this?

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