iTunes Airborne

iTunes AirborneIFE (In-Flight Entertainment) system providers have recognized the growing need for better and more up-to-date entertainment available to passengers. As iPodÂ’s and different MP3 players become more and more the norm IFE have began talks with Apple to possibly licensing iTunes media download software for the airlines systems. This would give passengers a wider variety of music and entertainment in which they could download to their own iPod MP3 players during their flights.

“We’ve had lots of discussions with Apple,” said Thales vice-president and in-flight systems general manager Brad Foreman last week at Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg. “The key is to get them to see the value of hosting iTunes on an aircraft. Is it a big enough market for them to be interested in? I’d try to do it tomorrow if they said yes.”

Talks with IFE and Apple will continue over the next while as licensing and re-engineering software specifically for in-air flight will be a big undertaking.

iTunes AirborneIFE (In-Flight Entertainment) system providers have recognized the growing need for better and more up-to-date entertainment available to passengers. As iPodÂ’s and different MP3 players become more and more the norm IFE have began talks with Apple to possibly licensing iTunes media download software for the airlines systems. This would give passengers a wider variety of music and entertainment in which they could download to their own iPod MP3 players during their flights.

“We’ve had lots of discussions with Apple,” said Thales vice-president and in-flight systems general manager Brad Foreman last week at Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg. “The key is to get them to see the value of hosting iTunes on an aircraft. Is it a big enough market for them to be interested in? I’d try to do it tomorrow if they said yes.”

Talks with IFE and Apple will continue over the next while as licensing and re-engineering software specifically for in-air flight will be a big undertaking.

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