“The technology earnings season comes to a close next week with the quarterly report of computing and printing giant Hewlett-Packard which will be “closely watched for several reasons when it posts its fourth-quarter results on Tuesday. As the world’s largest maker of printing devices, its printing business continues to be the biggest profit driver. It also began selling Apple Computer’s iPod music players under the H-P brand name, and any positive sales information could give a boost to Apple,” Rex Crum reports for CBS MarketWatch.
Full article here.
coulda, might have, maybe… ok so speculation runs the roost on Wall Street…. kinda scary when you think about it…
i thought it was “rules the roost”
Apple still has an estimated more than 87% of the hard drive-based digital music players, HP has about 3.6%, and Rio a paltry 2.8%. There was nothing mentioned in the article about the rest of the techno-wannabes’ ventures into the wonderful world of digital music. Also, I didn’t read any analyses of flash- vs. hard-drive-based players development or market demand, either.
Did any one else read something that I missed regarding how HP�s successes or failures ultimately would impact Apple�s bottom line? Is this just another bait-and-switch technique from MDN?
iPod has 60% of total market of all mp3 players and 91% of HDD based. You can do the math from there.
I hope the HP iPod figures are good. It may encourage Apple to more deals to consolidate its position. (But never, ever, with dell…please!!)
HiPod sales will be good.