[MacDV] Re: HP to rebrand and sell iPods!

[Peter van der Linden]

On Jan 10, 2004, at 9:34 AM, Kochkodin wrote:

> Anyone remember the clones and what they did to Apple? This is a bad 
> idea. Appe should pay companies to
> pre-install iTunes but not allow clones. HP will sell these cheaply

It would be truly astonishing if Apple had forgotten to write a clause 
in the licensing contract stipulating a minimum resale price by H-P.   
HP won't undercut Apple's prices.   The clone situation was very 
different to this.

As others have pointed out, the H-Pod deal also gets Quicktime software 
onto high volume desktops.  This is very, very good for Apple.  The big 
loser is Microsoft (in as much that any company sitting on profits of 
$50 BN from operating an unregulated unlicensed monopoly can be said to 
"lose").

      Peter