How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina

HughPickens.com writes: Carly Fiorina likes to boast about her friendship with Apple founder Steve Jobs but Fortune Magazine reports that it turns out Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late leader. In January 2004, Steve Jobs and Carly Fiorina cut a deal where HP could slap its name on Apple's wildly successful iPod and sell it through HP retail channels but HP still managed to botch things up. The MP3 player worked just like a regular iPod, but it had HP's logo on the back and in return HP agreed to continue pre-loading iTunes onto its PCs. According to Steven Levy soon after the deal with HP was inked, Apple upgraded the iPod, making HP's version outdated and because of Fiorina's deal HP was banned from selling its own music player until August 2006. "This was a highly strategic move to block HP/Compaq from installing Windows Media Store on their PCs," says one Apple source. "We wanted iTunes Music store to be a definitive winner. Steve only did this deal because of that."

In short, Fiorina's "good friend" Steve Jobs blithely mugged her and HP's shareholders. By getting Fiorina to adopt the iPod as HP's music player, Jobs had effectively gotten his software installed on millions of computers for free, stifled his main competitor, and gotten a company that prided itself on invention to declare that Apple was a superior inventor.

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TLDR, Jobs was a raging piece of s***

[Anonymous Coward]

So the takeaway is, Steve Jobs was a raging piece of s***. We already knew that. I'm glad that, despite him skating his way to the top of the transplant list due to his wealth and influence, he still died. F*** that a**hole.

Re:Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late lead

[hawguy]

Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late leader

Why do you even post things anymore, timothy?

"Why do you even of things anymore, timothy?".

Fixed that for you.

She killed the calculator group. Never forget!

[trout007]

I honestly wouldn't vote for her for that reason alone.

Re:weakly disguised hit-piece

[TsuruchiBrian]

I think this comment is a weakly disguised hit piece on this article.

Re:Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late lead

[Darinbob]

Powerful you have become. The Timothy I sense in you.

Re:weakly disguised hit-piece

[Darinbob]

Time for Putin to pull the wool over her eyes if by some fluke she becomes president.
"We're allowed to put our American flag logo on the back of all Russian missiles fired in Syria."

If you're gonna get screwed, get screwed by a pro

[goodmanj]

I dunno. If I had to choose between negotiating with Steve Jobs or Vladimir Putin, I think I'd pick Putin as the safer choice.

Re:Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late lead

[Rei]

I personally believe that the Timothy are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have spellcheck and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.

Re:Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late lead

[fustakrakich]

This begs the question...

Did Carly may have outlived of by Apple's late leader?

Re: Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late lea

[damn_registrars]

She is gaining momentum in her campaign so we need to do something to slow her down

Slowing her down isn't necessary on slashdot. While we have a solid conservative majority in the slashdot user base, the overwhelming majority of slashdot conservatives will vote for whoever has the (R) after their name. In november if the ballot says Ghost of Ronald Reagan (D) vs Ficus Tree (R), the Tree will win the slashdot electorate by a landslide.

Re:weakly disguised hit-piece

[MillionthMonkey]

I'd pick Trump too, in the same way that I would choose to drink bleach rather than ammonia or nitric acid.

As for the Democrats, right now it seems like a choice between Dr. Pepper and Coke Zero.