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

[Wayne T. Daley]

Hi All:
This is what my friend Nate wrote to me and I agree with him.

"Yeah, I saw that.  It's brilliant.  But I haven't seen much commentary 
on what I think is the real motive here.   Jobs LEARNED from his 
mistake the first time around. Doesn't anyone else see what he's 
doing--pushing iTunes is an "operating system" for digital music.  He's 
doing what he failed to do in 1984, and what made Microsoft so 
huge--license the software, make everyone use yours, and don't worry 
about the hardware so much...

Next step should be putting iPhoto and GarageBand"


On Jan 10, 2004, at 5:32 PM, Daniel Beck wrote:

>
> On Jan 11, 2004, at 6:55 AM, Kochkodin wrote:
>
>> Why should Apple sell HP branded iPods when they can sell their own 
>> fine?
>
> Because they can sell them to more people this way.
>
>> If they are going to be made by Apple and therefore be the same as 
>> Apple branded iPods then what is the point?
>
> See above.
>
>> Putting the software onto more machines is a great idea but I don't 
>> see whats so great about HP branded iPods.
>
> They didn't do this move for Mac users. They did it for all those 
> people who buy HP computers.
>
>> Apple should buy a weak PC company like Gateway and make OS X run on 
>> Pentium type machines but not on other PCs.
>
> You're against Apple selling more iPods to HP, but you're for Apple 
> making PCs and porting OS X to Intel?
>
> Daniel
>
>
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