HP's iPod Killer To Be... The iPod

from the or-is-that-hpod? dept

Thu, Jan 8th 2004 1:51pm — Mike Masnick

While everyone else is scrambling around trying to design an iPod killer, the folks over at HP figured why bother? They've gone and licensed the technology directly from Apple and will start selling their own branded version of the iPod - complete with iTunes. This is a bit surprising, because you'd expect HP to just sign up for a Microsoft-supported product instead. Still, any bets on whether or not this device will be called the HPod?

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