Prelude To Innovations in Motion

The HP-branded iPod... An Alliance has been formed between Apple and HP...:

Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard's chairman and chief executive officer, has unveiled the new iPod-based HP device at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The "HP Digital Music Player" that was shown is light blue in color, sports an "HP" logo on the back, and is "the first and only one," according to Fiorina. As reported Thursday onMacMinute, HP and Apple have announced a strategic alliance to deliver an HP-branded music player based on Apple's iPod, which is expected to ship in June "priced competitively to other digital music players currently available." Also as part of the partnership, HP PCs and notebooks will come preinstalled with iTunes and "an easy-reference desktop icon" to point consumers directly to the iTunes Music Store.

According to the Cox News Service, Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell had "nothing to say" when asked about HP and Apple's new iPod/iTunes allianceon Thursday. How's that for being caught off guard. In October, Dell began selling its own digital music player and bundling a branded version of the MusicMatch store, which Fortune called "the clumsy, Bizarro counterpart to Apple's brilliant iTunes Music Store."

My post at the MacNN forums :

The HP Digital Music Player is in "hp blue"

I mean, come on people, there are only TWO DIFFERENCES:

The color
and the hp logo on the back

So, just because something has color, it is bad? We should cast it out, just because it is a little different, but it is THE SAME ON THE INSIDE. Let's take a lesson from the past, and open our minds!