Apple axes RingTone iTunes Plan?

Interesting article in The Register suggesting that Apple were set to announce iRingtones which could be transferred by Bluetooth to mobiles as part of iTunes and iLife 06.

They are saying that the phone companies kicked up a fuss... although as far as I'm aware most ringtones in Europe aren't sold by the phone companies but by people like Jamster who I'd love Apple to put out of business.

I'm also curious about this since some US carriers cripple Bluetooth so that it can only transfer certain data on the phones so not sure why this was going to irritate those companies anyhow.

Ringtones is like a $3 billion a year industry for the cell phone companies. Anybody trying to compete in what is historically a competition-free segment will be met fiercely at the Gates.


Here's to the Crazy Ones

Ringtones is like a $3 billion a year industry for the cell phone companies. Anybody trying to compete in what is historically a competition-free segment will be met fiercely at the Gates.


Here's to the Crazy Ones

Wow, $3 billion a year? What's wrong with the regular "ring ring" sound that phones are supposed to make? And who in their right mind spends $3 on a 30 second clip from a second rate pop song?

Wow, $3 billion a year? What's wrong with the regular "ring ring" sound that phones are supposed to make? And who in their right mind spends $3 on a 30 second clip from a second rate pop song?

I make my own ringtones from garageband

chavs, i swear they have to have at least 30 "bling" tones on their phones, personally if i had a phone i'd make my own, and i'd end up just using imperial march.

Sounds cool for all the tenybopers with the cool cells

TheRegister.co.uk claims that Apple had big plans to introduce ringtone sales into the iTunes Music Store. . . The new feature was reported to be a headline feature of iLife '06 at Macworld San Francisco.

A part of iLife cancelled from the iTunes Music Store? This sounds like a fundamental misunderstanding of the Apple product line.

Even if the ringtone feature were part of iTMS, I have a hard time believing that it would also depend on iLife.

Oh well, personally I've no use for it. I just use the mp3 files stored in my cell as my ring tone.

Hopefully, they have much much more bigger things to announce at Macworld than ringtones....

just leave the things on vibrate anyways. then we don't have to hear them going off in rude places all the time!

~runs and hides~

I'm sure it has something to do with the cellular carriers. They're almost as bad if not worse than the RIAA.

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narco.