Things that make you go Hmmmmm....
Kudos to cmbent on Agora for this. FF stated in the webcast, the OEM player would be more closely tied into window based music services (Anybody have the real quote??)...
Reuters
UPDATE - Samsung to market Napster-branded music player
Tuesday September 16, 7:11 pm ET
By Eric Auchard
NEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Samsung on Tuesday said it plans to co-market a new line of digital music players with the soon-to-be-relaunched Napster 2.0 service, in the latest move to stoke up its brand image among youthful consumers globally.
The new product line was just one of nearly a dozen products ranging from mobile phones with tiny built-in television sets to huge TV screens that will be unveiled at the company's annual showcase here of new devices aimed at U.S. consumer markets this fall.
The new Napster-ready device will be available in retail stores this fall, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (KSE:05930.KS - News) said in a statement.
'Samsung is trying to do what Apple Computer has done with its iPod music players and iTunes online music store,' said Michael Kelleher, an analyst with market research firm Yankee Group in Boston.
'Certainly, if Napster can build itself up as a legitimate file sharing portal, then that's good for Samsung.'
In its first incarnation, Napster provided a rogue music downloading service that captured the imagination of tens of millions of music fans.
The original company was snuffed out of business by a court order and its assets were purchased by Roxio, a maker of software for copying digital music, which plans to launch a legal Napster 2.0 music download service this fall.
The Samsung devices will be co-branded and identified as 'Napster compatible' on the packaging. The 500,000 song titles will be available from all five major record labels and hundreds of independent labels, according to Roxio.
The partnership will include joint engineering and co-marketing activities for a line of portable music devices that integrate with Napster 2.0, Samsung and Roxio said.
Who is this Time Being, and why are we always doing things for it?
