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HP To Start Selling Its iPod
Dozix007 writes "Uberhacker.Com is reporting that HP said Friday it will start selling its version of the iPod in September. HP's white iPod will be sold in a 20-gigabyte and 40-gigabyte version for $299 and $399 respectively. Apple's prices are the same. It is essentially a clone of the current design, with no real modification."
No.
because it _is_ an ipod, not just a clone. it's the same thing.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
While all the parents make great points of "WHY" or "WHY NOT". I would like to add that HP may not make any money, or even promote their company logo. BUT, they have made a very advantageous business partnership. This opens up a whole new market for HP, who traditionally had only been involved in office oriented products. This allows them to branch off into the "everything for your digital lifestyle" market. Plus, they now have the prestige of distributing some great hardware. They esentially trying to become the Apple of the PC world.
Donuts, is there anything they can't do?
HP has lots of retail agreements, so this will get the iPod on to even more store shelves. Costco will carry them for example.
Scuttlemonkey is a troll
.. it's not a license, they are Apples with a hp logo on back, and an hp phone support/warranty. This is great for Apple/hp/and the consumer. If someone want hp blue, skin/tattoo it!
No it's not joke. Here're relevant press releases and their "HP Tattoos" gallery:/ 2004/04082 7a.htmlk its/2004/ digitalexplaunch/fs_ipod.pdfh p.com/music/us/en/tattoos.html
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_
http://h10049.www1.
You will be able to print your own skin for the ipod. I think its funny that people would normaly download skins for their software mp3 players like winamp. Now you will be downloading and printing new skins for your hardware mp3 player.
Don't buy a retail / consumer HP. That advice generally applies to any other electronics product too.
Their corporate / IT stuff should be a lot better, although it depends on the model.
I think the grandparent post was a joke though.
We're getting them in at RadioShack later this month
" Why wouldn't you use one of those coupons to buy an Apple IPod instead?"
Because my Staples does not have an iPod or any other Apple products. It does have HP everything from printers to mice to computers to scanners and now HP branded iPods. Best of all they have nice discounts too and price matching to boot.
"Adding one more middleman in the chain doesn't reduce the cost to the end user."
Actually it can reduce the total cost consumers pay in many ways. Take cars and specialization of components that are mass produced and get economies of scale. Without competing middle men and lots of them what are the chances my price will be higher? Then there is the obvious more retailers are better than less because they may compete on price, service location etc. If it costs me less to drive/walk over to my local Staples I just saved shipping. Seriously Apple made a good descision, that was necessary to compete with Sony which is still clobbering them on digital music players sold.* They aren't out of the woods yet, but hey at least they are trying.
*Interesting tid bit: More pre-recorded _full albums_ have been sold in MiniDisc format than _individual songs_ given away and sold in the Apple iTunes Store. When was the last time you saw a pre-recorded MiniDisc? Scary eh? The whole 60:1 MiniDisc to iPod sales penetration is even scarrier and when you add HiMD and new cheaper MD players to the mix plus a Sony Music online store, it gets even worse for Apple as far as music players and song sales go. Sony needs better competition with less onerous DRM so I applaud Apple to going for the juggler.
I formatted it on the Windows PC, and I assume I'll have to do any updates the same way. However, that's a pretty small inconvenience for being able to plug it into any computer on Earth. I also picked up the PocketDock that has a USB and a Firewire port, so I just need any ol' cable instead of schlepping around the Apple cables. It's a good solution.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
It is essentially a clone of the current design
It's not a clone of the current design; it is the current design. The exact same thing. It's just in a differently labeled box.
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AND,
you do not need iTMS. Any store selling MP3 plays just fine with iPod.
Dude, if you had enough money and you farted, some lawyer would come after you with a class action suit.
I'm not against class action law suits in principle, and we've seen them do some good, but we've also seen too much abuse.
What bothers me the most about such abuses is that they give ammunition to the "tort reformers" who would like to see only the corporations and the rich with access to lawyers.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
The reason why continental Europe feared the English in battle (cf, Henry V at Agincourt) was precisely because the English archers were able to decimate even armoured opponents at long range.
It wasn't armour that nullified the tactical advantage of the longbow, it was the invention of gunpowder and the musket.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Yes, but IBM was a better known and more highly regarded brand, which then went on to clean Apple's clock and marginalize its marketshare. Which is not what is happening to the iPod. People bought IBMs for the brand.
Again, this is comparing different relative time frames. The Apple II initially did well against the IBM PC. Apple initially had greater marketshare. It took years to lose that. Apple's "marginalization" took place in the post-1984 Macintosh era, not the prior Apple II era. For a fair comparison we need to give Sony a few years, then the IBM PC comparison would be applicable.