MOTOROLA'S iTUNES PHONE DELAYED

Looks like Cingular and Verizon are putting the brakes on Motorola's iTunes phone. This, of course, means that that telecom companies are fast becoming my Most Hated Industry. Sorry, RIAA, I thought you had a lock for life. Better luck next year. Anyway... this bidness is a pretty clear explanation of why Apple has not come out with a sweet Mac-syncing cell phone. Steve Jobs is smart. Telecom execs are idiots. Steve Jobs doesn't like dealing with idiots. (Just ask Eisner.) Now, if any of these telecom execs were smart - and clearly they aren't - they wouldn't be trying to block this thing, they'd be trying to lock up exclusive rights to it. I've been thinking of switching to Sprint PCS for a while just so I could get one of those PalmOS based flip phones. Similarly, I'd switch carriers to get a phone that could sync with iTunes. And with legions of iPod users out there I can only imagine the coup it would be to be the Only Carrier with the iTunes Phone. People are idiots.