HP CEO reveals why they dropped the iPod

By Peter Rojas

HP's new CEO explained straight up for BusinessWeek how there's a perfectly good explanation for why his company decided to stop selling HP-branded iPods: it's because they couldn't dominate, errr, lead the market they way they'd wanted to (we actually prefer
Ross Rubin's dramatization of how things went down, but we'll settle for the corporate-speak). Apparently he was able to make the connection that Carly couldn't;
namely that putting their logo on an iPod, "with no or very little technology differentiation," wasn't exactly doing much for HP as a brand or as a company.

[Via iLounge]

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