HP abandons iPod
p2pnet.net News- Carly brought it in and now Mark is throwing it out ——-
—– Apple’s iPod, that is, Carly being Carly Fiorina, the gone and not lamented former boss of Hewlett-Packard.
And Mark is Mark Hurd, the company’s new ceo.
"Both companies confirmed the end of a deal that has contributed to about 5 percent of the iPod’s total shipments," says the Associated Press.
"HP has decided that reselling iPods does not fit within the company’s current digital entertainment strategy," Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris is quoted as saying. "As a result, HP plans to stop reselling iPods by the end of this September."
Kerris "declined to comment" on how HP decision to dump the iPod will affect Apple’s financial results, says AP.
The hPod came clad in urban night-time camo and when the HP/Apple deal was announced, ‘Would the HP version support the Windows Media Audio?’ – was the Big Question.
Nope, was the answer. It was locked up tight with Apple FairPlay DRM.
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See:-
Associated Press – HP to stop reselling iPod music player, July 29, 2005
Big Question – HP’s hPod: breaking old ground, August 28, 2004
July 30th, 2005 at 6:34 am
I think i’ve posted this about half a dozen times before, but IPOD is not locked up with DRM. It “supports” fairplay, and nothing more. I use my ipod for all my song files, most of which are ripped straight from my cd’s to completely unhobbled mp3, aac, or lossless formats (depending on when i ripped them).
My friend makes audio book files which are also free of DRM, which contain bookmarking abilities which ipod supports as well.
Going into your os and “viewing hidden files” will show the folders which contain the songs. The songs are not locked into the device with “drm”.. they’re hashed in for optimized searches, otherwise it would cost battery life, ram, and resources to get the same performance.
Would you blame dell dj for the DRM’ed napster files? how about the creative labs players?…
WMA is not supported ANYWHERE in apple systems for a reason (mainly because, even though apple makes WMP codecs for quicktime, ms refuses to make a truly interoperable quicktime component for windows media).
Stop attacking ipod as some locked down piece of malware. If you really want I’ll record video of all the different file formats going into the device… the easily opened folders with the hash code values for names… and post it on my personal webspace. Will that be enough to stop the mindless apple-bashing diatribes?
Why not focus on how MS is selling out it’s customers with “VISTA”..
here’s a good summary of what a TRUE lockdown computer will be thanks to the sellouts at microsoft and the obsequeous and spineless hardware companies who are incapable of standing up and saying “NO”.
http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/07/27/how_microsoft_is_selling_out_the_public_to_please_hollywood.php
July 30th, 2005 at 4:01 pm
Well you are apple freak! Get fact correct it was main story on the site for over a week!
Will fuzzy monitors rule?
http://p2pnet.net/story/5591
PS iPod is total rubish, why simple PSP will in salles terms to a lot more. Now why is Apple doing video version of iPod as they know Sony are on the sean with there PSP which plays movies etc..etc…
Grow up and get an life, Apple only sells over price hippy toys. Yes Toys! Which isn’t use in realy world.
July 31st, 2005 at 9:03 am
Last time I checked there was no video iPod.
I have one question for you. If ipods are ‘rubish’ why did are they the most sold mp3 player. Also, why did the number of iPod sold increase by more than 600% in Apple’s Q3.
Yes, Apple only sells toys. We must forget about all those computers they sell. nevermind that they account for 46% of Apple’s sales.
I mean who are we kidding Apple is just a toy company…that has about $6 billion in cash.