From: RobertB 

In article ,
 Mike N.  wrote:

> > The phone will be offered exclusively through Cingular in the US in June,
>
>   This is a  downside.  It would be really great if they had an open API
> with the cellular industry and sold it as an unlocked option.  I'll bet the
> interface to Cingular is not that advanced.

Well, since they're betting so much on THEIR interface, they're not going
to open it up before they've even introduced it on the market. That
wouldn't make economic sense. They want to create an identifiable brand
first.
>
>    The only other thing is that if  ITunes will be the primary PC
> interface, I couldn't take a mollasses slow PDA function on the PC.  I can
> tolerate the 10 seconds per click in ITunes since I interact with the PC
> interface only occasionally.

From what I saw, iTunes is simply one of the phones features. Looks like it
runs several OS X applications.

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