“Hoping to make a big bang in the consumer electronics market, Hewlett-Packard plans on Friday to unveil its long-awaited HP-branded iPod, along with its first televisions, an entertainment hub and the usual array of new printers and cameras, sources said,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
“The iPod, while expected to be similar to Apple’s version, is important both as the company’s entree into the music market as well as a part of HP’s strategy to become cool enough to be allowed in the living room,” Fried reports.
Full article here.
Ooh, first post.
ooooo, first dork!
When this was first announced, HP showed off a 2nd generation iPod in blue. But I would have to think that the model coming to market will be in line with Apple’s current offering (i.e. click wheel).
They showed a blue iPod that was then currently available in January. It was hastily “made” as the deal was finalized the day before the announcement. They will introduce a 4th Gen version in blue.
Will these HP iPods work with my Mac? That’s what I want to know today.
The hPods should be virtually identical to the iPods, so compatability should be there as well.
This could save Carly from the unemployment line, if all goes according to plan.
This is great for the business IT person; they can expense out their music player as a ‘portable 40 gigabyte hard drive’, and it won’t raise a red flag in the accounting department because it comes from HP!
I think it would be a great idea if HP were to allow iPod connectivity via usb to their printers so that CD Labels and Inserts could be printed without the need for a computer. The notes capability of the 3rd and 4th G iPods would make it relatively easy to impliment. It would simply be a matter of Apple including all CD label information when an iPod user downloads a complete Album from the iTunes library. For complelation CD’s an AppleScript powered interface could be utilized to grab lyrics for the songs included and a final design could be displayed in Preview. Something like a small combo Printer/CD burner for use with iPods would be a great addition. Also, since Apple is not allowed to distribute music via physical media because of their contractual agreement with the Beatle’s Apple Corp,, perhaps HP or Pixar can be a liason for supplying Enhanced DVD media from artist that Apple may sign up in the future if they do get into music from a complete process stand point. Who would be better for the artist than Apple and the multimedia capabilities that they can supply for new indie artist?
Apple’s stock just rose above $35!! for a 52 week high!! some say it was due to this! I sure hope so.
I like your way of thinking Rogozhin…
Sorry M$, but your junk won’t “play for sure” on these either…
gah! of course these work with a mac… !!!
OOH.. i thought you meant HP’s stock went up.. i was gonna say.. huh? based on new products.. PFFFT..
yea this is kick ass news…
From: eaxit
“ooooo, first dork!”
Don’t put yourself down, mate.
:^P
Unprotected WMA files and MP3 files that PCeers have on their computers can easily be loaded into iTunes (PC only) and then transfered to an iPod. HP has a slew of new products to be announced tomorrow… HPod and the first foray into flat sceen Televisions. Also, all HP consumer desktops will be bundled with iTunes/Quicktime and iTMS already on the desktop.
Is it me or the HP announcement resound as the Cavalry trumpet when the indians (Microsoft) are ready to jump onto the caravan?
Cannot choose a better moment to announce the HPod and the new bundled products and iTMS pre-installed on HP computers.
Someone in Redmont must be fuming.
“This could save Carly from the unemployment line, if all goes according to plan.”
I can assure you, Carly is in no danger of losing her job.
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“Is it me or the HP announcement resound as the Cavalry trumpet when the indians (Microsoft) are ready to jump onto the caravan?”
I imagine that had something to do with it. The announcement was supposed to be next week.
It’ll be interesting to see how many of these sell. On one hand, maybe people will buy because they “aren’t from Apple”. On the other maybe they won’t buy because they aren’t as cool as having a “real iPod” from Apple. Time will tell!
If they’re dark blue and don’t have that mirror finish… or at least have a darker mirror finish… and cost less… COUNT ME IN!
I think people will want one of these. Get all the HD space of the regular snow iPod, but with a blue color! Definitely cool!!!
I predict that the HP iPods will come in a choice of colours. Blue was used for one demonstration unit; there is no reason why HP would not use other colours and perhaps designs for its own iPods. No white HP iPod; that one is an Apple exclusive.
http://www.macminute.com/2004/08/27/hpipod
“The expectation on the iPod is that HP’s version will probably outsell Apple’s version relatively quickly” Rob Enderle
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Blue will be the colors. Apple doesn’t need the headache of producing many different colors for HP (well actually the vendor that makes them). Indeed HP should sell more as they have 100 times more retail outlets, business accounts, etc. That’s one of the reasons why Apple agreeded to supply them with Pods. See the unveiling here at about 9:30 EDT on August 27:
http://www.hpbroadband.com/program.cfm?key=B3Launch27Aug2004EXT
Blue will be the color. Apple doesn’t need the headache of producing many different colors for HP (well actually the vendor that makes them). Indeed HP should sell more as they have 100 times more retail outlets, business accounts, etc. That’s one of the reasons why Apple agreed to supply them with Pods. See the unveiling here at about 9:30 EDT on August 27:
http://www.hpbroadband.com/program.cfm?key=B3Launch27Aug2004EXT
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