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RE: That was the popular rumor but not the fact.....


The point is, Omnifone was in serious trouble before Apple purchased them. Ominiphone going belly up, and subsequently Pono closing it's doors was inevitable regardless of Apple's timing in purchasing them.

Apple saw value in Omnifone but that does not put them under any obligation to keep Pono or other Omnifone customers afloat. I'm sure Tim Cook didn't wake up one morning and say, "I hate Neil. I think I'll kill Pono".

Pono chose a weak single source partner in Ominifone and they were blind sided with no contigency plan. Poor business decisions killed Pono, not Apple. They would have shut down either way you view it.

And it's not like we were lacking for established hi-res music download sites. The whole timing of Pono's launch and business model was flawed from the beginning as the download business was known to be in decline.

So no, Apple didn't kill Pono. Pono killed Pono.

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