HP Dumped Napster for Apple

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Posted by michael on Friday February 20, 2004 @04:59AM from the napster-is-dying dept.

Pieter Townshend writes "Found on GMSV: 'In the days leading up to Napster's re-launch last October, a deal that would have put Napster links on millions of Hewlett-Packard computers went bad. HP withdrew from the agreement at the last minute, its reasons for doing so becoming clear three months later when it announced a surprise partnership with Apple to feature the iTunes Music store on HP computers and sell Hewlett-Packard branded iPod music players.'"

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Fly on the wall, eh? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-20 05:01 · Score: 5, Funny

Steve Jobs : We'd like you to use our music service, we'll even let you HP-brand the iPod.
Carla Fiorina : Nice idea but we've got a handshake deal with Napster and a cheque for $250K to make the deal concrete.
Steve Jobs : Here's a suitcase full of money, an iPod and a contract to let you do voice-acting in the next Pixar flick. Return the $250K and consider my proposal.
Carla Fiorina : Napster who?
$15 a month by bad+enema · 2004-02-20 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Equivalent to going out and buying a CD every month. With the rate of quality music being released these day, buying once a month is way too frequent for my taste.

Personally I have gotten most of the pre-Internet era music from Kazaa Lite, so paying $1 a song would suit my needs much better. Or I could just stick with Kazaa Lite some mroe.
breakups... by Enze6997 · 2004-02-20 05:09 · Score: 4, Funny

Maybe HP and Napster will run into each other at some bar after one to many rum and cokes and for some reason Apple will be out of town on business or something... sparks will fly and BAM... 10 years later herpes!
H-Pod? by Johnny+Fusion · 2004-02-20 05:11 · Score: 5, Funny

So, what will HP call thier branded I-Pod? I supposed they could go with H-POD, but then people might get confused. "H? But H comes before I, is it the older model?" Then I guess there is HP-POD, which could be pronounced "Hip-Pod", but then Steve Jobs would be all, "Waitaminute, Apple is WAY MORE Hip, than HP! OK so we both started in Garages, but I sold my my VAN, to start the company, a VAN, man. And Woz had to sell his Calculator! His Calculator, man, one of those nice Programable HP ones... oh, wait. OK"

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1. Re:H-Pod? by grub · 2004-02-20 05:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  HiPod?
  
  Just a thought. (if any HPers read this and use it I want one for the idea)
  
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2. Re:H-Pod? by Octagon+Most · 2004-02-20 05:40 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "Then I guess there is HP-POD, which could be pronounced "Hip-Pod"..."
  
  Or perhaps they will use the "hip" naming conventions they use for other products and call it something like the h3845a Digital Audio Player.
3. Re:H-Pod? by geoffspear · 2004-02-20 06:20 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'm betting on "MusicJet 6000".
  
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Think about it... by ScottGant · 2004-02-20 05:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Dumped Napster

Dumped-Napster

DumpedNapster

Dumpster

It all becomes clear.

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Re:One reason why I think by Xaymot · 2004-02-20 05:29 · Score: 5, Funny

See what the man did to you? Now your chasing down other peoples' trash to snag some free songs. Its like when a GHB addict goes to Home Depot to sniff some thinner.

RC cola is better anyway.
Re:Huh!? by Kenja · 2004-02-20 05:34 · Score: 5, Funny

"AAC has DRM too",
But its Apple DRM. Which is good for some reason. Unlike Microsoft DRM, which makes baby Jesus cry.

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HP Ipods by Enfurno · 2004-02-20 06:30 · Score: 5, Funny

So now im guessing any ipod I buy will be bloated with extra software to check the integrity of my mp3's, give me weather updates, and provide easy online customer support... just what I was looking for.

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Re:The Real Reason by Etcetera · 2004-02-20 06:40 · Score: 4, Funny

and she made an educated guess that Napster would last about as long as Right Said Fred.

I'm too sexy for my iPod.

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Re:The other problem. by Maserati · 2004-02-20 07:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, I'm warning people at the office when they get set up with iTunes for the first time. One guy had the CD player in his laptop break and blew $150 before it got fixed (not from my office, not mine to fix).

The worst part is, now there's a $0.99 tax on getting a song stuck in your head.

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