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Apple Computer is already the market leader in the portable digital music and video player segment. The company is rumored to be working on a mobile phone capable of playing digital music. The latest rumors are that Apple would be launching two such products early next year.

However, this does not seem to worry one of the major players in the Smartphone market Palm. Palm CEO Ed Colligan found the idea ridiculous that a computer company can enter the mobile market and win a major chunk of it easily.

He said: ” We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

He further said that Apple is likely to rely upon their own stores to sell these Apple iPhone rather than collaborating with mobile service providers like Verizon and Cingular.

However, we do know that Apple entered the digital music player market with their iPod, which was earlier dominated by players from Sony and Creative and did better than both of these companies.