Posted on 10/01/2015 4:31:04 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
Thanks for posting this. I purchased my first iPod on eBay several years ago & it had the HP logo on the back. I never could figure that out, now I know. BTW, it didn’t last long.
I have a 30GB iPod from HP, probably bought it in 2005. Formatted it on my HP PC with Windows, and used it with iTunes on the PC. Still works great ten years later (the iPod, not the HP PC) holding thousands of tunes and photos. The only thing I changed was doing a battery swap, bought off eBay for a few bucks. Great value, indestructible.
One of the other things in the article that doesn't ring true is the claim that "software companies were paying hundreds of millions of dollars to get their software included on PCs" and that Apple got persuaded Carly to include iTunes for free on HP as a way to keep Windows Media Player from being included. Say what? What software companies could afford to pay "hundreds of millions" to each PC manufacturer to include their crap ware on their PCs???? They do pay, but it ain't that much.
I guess we’re all the winner then!
They can't! That's the problem with Windows PCs. Not much installed, so you have to pay an arm and a leg to buy useful software to add to the PC. Sure, you get some crap ware, but it's trial stuff that shortly expires requiring you to pay much to continue the license. On the other hand, an Apple Mac comes preloaded with tons of apps for the price of the Mac. That's one of the reasons my PCs aren't in use much anymore. I got tired of paying so much extra for software, in addition to annual licensing.
As for my HP equipment, the quality is piss poor compared to what they built in the 1970s. I have several programmable HP RPN calculators from that time, still operational, the internals a thing of beauty with gold traces everywhere. The stuff they build now is crap. I got tired of multiple failures on my HP PCs. For instance, several failed HP Personal Media Drives. HP sucks.
even at the programs peak, it represented no more than about five percent of total iPod sales.
I'd gladly take that, especially when compared with five percent of Zune.
:)
He would make a much better deal, because Steve Jobs didn't respect Carly Fiorina. Jobs would have respected Trump. It would have been the greatest, classiest deal in history. You would have loved it.
Or maybe that's just what he says about everything.
Of that, I'm pretty sure.
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