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A history of the mobile-music era, 2004–2010 — the ringtone boom, the carrier stores, the iTunes phone that flopped and the iPhone that ended the argument. Written from period sources.

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All articles

  1. 01April Furst: the fake iTunes phone that fooled the internet13:51
  2. 02The 100-song limit: why the real iTunes phone failed13:34
  3. 03Who killed the iTunes phone: Apple, Motorola, or the carriers?14:16
  4. 04Two songs a week, one pound each: when O2 signed half of Groove Armada14:01
  5. 05Japan had full-song phone downloads in 200415:08

Reference

  1. ·The Store Ledger — every store, sourced, with what happened to purchases
  2. ·The Era Timeline, 2002–2012 — the whole story in dated lines