At today's Conference Call, XM was asked about Mel's announcement on not having a Sirius / iPod partnership, and apparently XM has been in talks with Apple as well.
To paraphrase, Apple is focused on driving down the costs of the iPod and fighting off growing competition in that market, and they're "happy where they are" as of now. Steve Jobs supposedly said that he'll be happy to be wrong, and isn't ruling anything out, but the announcement of an iPod Satellite won't happen anytime soon.
The question still remains about the XM SkyPod trademark, but my personal hunch is that XM is preparing an iPod Accessory that will enable satellite radio reception on the iPod using XM's Connect-and-Play technology.
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