News Apple and Motorola in music deal

So much for Apple not licensing it's tech, eh? This from the Beeb:

Apple is to produce a version of its iTunes online music downloading service which will be compatible with Motorola mobile phones.

Under the deal, Motorola phones will be able to install songs from iTunes via a USB cable or Bluetooth connection.

Apple said the new iTunes music player would become Motorola's standard music application for its music phones.

Motorola - the world's second biggest mobile phone maker - said the music handsets would be available from 2005.

Financial details of the deal between the two US firms were not disclosed.

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You also have to remember that Apple and Motorola have been dealing with each other for decades now. If I remember correctly, the first few macs had Motorola 68000 processors in them. So I figure that Apple would be more inclined to license it's tech to Motorola which they have been dealing with for a long time now. Rather than Real Networks, that is trying to promote a rival format, and whose software on MacOS is absolutely terrible. Even worse than the windows version. At least from what I can remember.

 

motorola used to make the PowerPC chips in mac's up until a little while ago
now ibm make them iirc