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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/02/1427090/-How-Steve-Jobs-played-Carly-Fiorina-like-a-foolThe HP iPod never made up more than 5% of total iPod sales.
And what about the color? Fiorina insisted that the baby blue color would differentiate HP iPods from the pristine white Apple iPods. At the time in 2004, Levy was surprised that a design focused Jobs would allow a baby blue iPod, so he asked Steve Jobs. Jobs' reply? A curt "We'll see". Sure enough, when HP iPods shipped in the fall of 2004, they were all Apple standard pristine white. Fiorina had been rolled even on the detail of what color HP iPods would be.
The biggest failure in Levy's article is probably buried towards the end.
It turns out that Fiorina's company had acquired patents related to technology needed for the iPod. If Fiorina had a working knowledge of the assets her company possessed she could have used those assets as negotiating leverage with her good friend Steve. Instead, Carly got rolled, the iTunes store became a mega success and the baby blue iPod is a testament to the failed leadership of one Carly Fiorina.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)People lambaste Bill Gates but Jobs was a thousand times the asshole.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Anyone who could deny their child like he did is a pretty low creature, IMO.
He really creeps me out. Reading his ex's side of the story makes him sound like a narcissistic and uncaring asshole. (And she kept making excuses for him.)
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I'm actually a pretty big fan of HP products (I'm working on my 3rd laptop right now that I bought back in late June). She really FUBAR'd the company.
I have one now too, an EliteBook. Wow, what a POS so far! I'm so not impressed w/it! Oh well ...
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I have the Spectre X360:
Two of the main reasons I like it are:
Watching movies
Use as a tablet
avebury
(10,952 posts)he was much better at business then Fiorina.
It would be funny if one of her opponents had her followed by a person dressed up in a baby blue Ipd costume. Remember Donna and the guy in the chicken costume on The West Wing?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)I think 30,000 people wearing 'pink slips' would an effective message.