iTunes for Cell Phones?

iTunes for cell phones? Aren’t things bad enough? I mean, it’s terrible that you can’t go to meetings (well, maybe it’s not such a bad thing that cell phones interrupt those), symphonies, ballets, theaters, dinners, and yes, for God’s sake, even the bathroom without having the less than melodic tones of a cell phone interrupting our lives. And sending the sounds of a flushing toilet screaming across the airwaves. Let those extraterrestrial on Alpha Centauri, who will intercept those radio waves in a very distant future, figure out that one…

Then, again, maybe it would be kind of cool to hear the refrain of the 1812 Overture (Tchiakovsky) or an angry snippet from Billy Joel or a soft ballad from the Beatles. Or Maybe something more modern like the lessening angst of Alanis Morrisette, the romping lyrics of Barenaked Ladies, or the forgotten ballads of Collective Soul. Or at least pieces of them since it’s not clear how many songs the new Motorola cell phones are going to store.

Frankly, I don’t see any use for such a device. Maybe lots of teens and college students will. Would it be cool to have a single device that was PDA, cell phone, and iPod all in one. Yes, as long as I wasn’t using it to play music when the phone rang. When I think of that, I want to keep my iPod separate. Some conversations can only be endured when there is good music in the background.