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From The Mac Observer, Apple Exec: Shuffle Grabs 58% of Flash Player Market; What Cell Phone Threat?

"(Apple) management argued that iPod will remain the best way to manage and listen to music with MP3 capability in handsets more complementary than a replacement," Mr. Milunovich wrote. "The negatives of music on a handset include a worse user interface and limited battery life," he said he was told.

I'm not convinced Apple shouldn't be worried by the cell phone market. The iPod line will always be a better way to listen to digital music compared to a cell, but once all cell phones become "adequate" as a digital music device (and some already are), won't they provide a significant deterrent against purchasing and lugging around a second music player?

Of course, Apple can reduce the impact if they can get iTunes / iPod software on cells.

Or if they make a iPod phone. That'd be cool.