Motorola has cleared things up regarding the ROKR’s absence at CeBIT and why they pulled their plans to announce the iTunes phone at the last second. Apparently, it stems simply from the differing product launch philosophies of the two companies. Motorola likes to show its products off before a launch whereas “Steve’s perspective is that you launch a product on Sunday and sell it on Monday,” says Ron Garriques, Motorla’s mobile phone division president. The initial speculation that the troubles stemmed from the urging of one or more wireless carriers was quickly put to bed by Ron, saying “I’ve got lots of carriers fighting to be the first one we go with.” It seems that we’re just going to have to wait for Apple and Motorola to simply surprise us one day, apparently, this summer.
