HP to rebrand and sell iPods!

Gordon B. Alley galley at texas.net
Sat Jan 10 23:40:35 PST 2004


On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:14:51 -0800, Peter van der Linden <pvdl at afu.com> wrote:

>...
>Take a look at HP's desktop PC sales.  You will see that they dwarf
>Apple's sales.
>This deal represents a HUGE new channel for Apple.
>
>Let me spell out the secret masterplan for you.  Don't tell anyone.
>1.  H-P is the number 2 PC vendor in the world, and they will bundle
>iTunes
>2.  People using iTunes will be likely to buy an iPod
>3.  iPod is one of Apple's most profitable products
>4.  iPod advances Apple's agenda of becoming the digital media hub.
...

Here's another part of the secret master plan you missed.

When you install iTunes for Windows, you also install QuickTime for 
Windows. So now a large subset of PCs will be shipped with QuickTime 
pre-installed.

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Gordon Alley  <*>
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