But as much as we spend on innovation, we also deeply admire the innovation of others. And so our innovation strategy is to focus our efforts where we can make a unique contribution and lead, and partner for the rest. So we thought about music, we thought about creating our own devices, we thought about creating our own music service. But when we looked at all the devices and all the services on the market today, we saw one company whose innovation we really admired, who had both the best music device and the best music service by far. I think you would all agree that Apple Computer has done a great service for music lovers with both the iPod and iTunes, and certainly the industry agrees.Since it was first introduced in 2001, Apple has sold more than two million iPods, and iTunes as Jimmy mentioned, accounts for 70 percent of all the legal downloads out there. That's an awful lot of music in people's pockets.And so, we‘re very pleased to be able to announce today that HP and Apple have signed a first-of-its-kind agreement. Starting in June, HP-branded digital music players based on the iPod design will begin shipping to a store near you, and HP devices will begin shipping with iTunes. HP is going to bring this award-winning product and service to the market on a massive scale, and I’m going to show you the first and only one, actually. This is the HP Digital Music Player. (Carly holds up an HP-branded digital music player).As a company that reaches 110,000 retail outlets in all those countries around the world, HP has the scope, and scale, and supply chain to mass market this to a wider audience than it has ever seen before, and sell it at a good price. And we think that's a pretty good deal for everyone: for HP, for Apple, but especially consumers.Why did Apple come to HP? Because we're an innovator; because we're applying R&D, and focusing our innovation to make the iPod and iTunes fit into our whole digital entertainment experience; because we have the engineering prowess to make complex things simple; because they know partnering is in our DNA and because we are a company that can make markets, because we are everywhere.Now, one of the unique new iTunes services that Steve Jobs announced this week at MacWorld, was the ability to download songs from the Billboard 100. It just so happens that the number one artist on that list for the past month has been the immensely talented and beautiful Alicia Keys, with her brilliant second album, entitled, "The Diary of Alicia Keys." Now, I was going to download her, but I decided to invite her instead. Ladies and gentlemen, Alicia Keys. (Alicia Keys performs.
cooooooo on 2:01, 10-Jan-2004absoluut niet eens met Siondit is een goede zet van Apple;- creeert meer verkoopkanalen- leidt indirect (via HP iPod) en direct (via iTunes op HP pc's) tot meer downloads op iTMS- wat weer leidt tot meer iPod verkopen, en indirect meer andere Apple produkt verkopen- meer iTMS downloads betekent ook: meer muziek beschikbaar in de toekomst omdat labels zullen zien dat ze omzet laten liggen
ik denk dat de prijs gelijk wordt aan de apple ipod; marge die apple dus maakt op hp ipods is dan gewoon iets minder dan op eigen ipods maar wordt terugverdiend doora) er worden er meer verkocht b) inkomsten van bovengenoemde
Steve Jobs wordt hier echt niet gepeopled
Dimitri on 10:21, 10-Jan-2004wanneer waordt de hp ipod gelanceerd? mei? juni? tegen die tijd hebben de apple gebruikers al de mogelijkheid om de 4de generatie ipod's te kopen. Ze verkoop hp oudere tegnologie tegen een vriendelijkere prijs.
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