iTunes PreInstalled HPs - End of March

Now thats got to bump up the fifty million ITunes sales as soon as it gets out in the wild:-)

Viv

This is good news. I hope HP does a lot of advertising of this. Apple needs all the good consumer press it can get.

Since Apple will be really really close to actually hitting that 100 million songs goal and make all these people trying to spin Apple's ass kickings out to be negative and failures eat their words. If this increased the downloads by only a half million a week... that could be all Apple needs to get to 100 million! That's a lot of tunes! :D

Since Apple will be really really close to actually hitting that 100 million songs goal and make all these people trying to spin Apple's ass kickings out to be negative and failures eat their words. If this increased the downloads by only a half million a week... that could be all Apple needs to get to 100 million! That's a lot of tunes! :D

How many Pcees a week do HP sell? I wonder what the percentage of new pc users suddenly introduced to ITunes out of the box will be and who then press the buy button?

Yes ITunes has been availible to them for a while but they had to go and get it! now its in front of them will they use it? this should be really interesting.

Viv

I have to believe the HPod won't wait for summer, either. I don't see Apple waiting much beyond summer to release a 4th-G iPod, and that would make HP's "obsolete" surprisingly fast, if say the HPod comes out in July and the 4G in September.

Getting the HPods out now gives them a run before something better (including a new HPod very likely) comes out of Apple later this year.

And why wait? It's just blue paint :) I'd expect HP to wait only for their PCs to be pre-loaded, and then launch the HPod. (I'm curious to see the color in something OTHER than a bad video. A second color choice is no bad thing.)

Also note: the deal applies to Compaqs too--they too will be preloaded with iTunes. (Maybe not all at the same time.)

My guess is that they're preinstalling iTunes earlier than planned to make it easier for existing customers to buy an hPod when they come out.

Since Apple will be really really close to actually hitting that 100 million songs goal and make all these people trying to spin Apple's ass kickings out to be negative and failures eat their words. If this increased the downloads by only a half million a week... that could be all Apple needs to get to 100 million! That's a lot of tunes! :D

Currently Apple is at 50m songs sold at a current rate of 2.5m a week (i.e., there is growth still as that is 50m every 20 weeks, or 140m a year). Assume 3m a week for the next 6 weeks, and Apple will have sold nearly 70m songs by the time they said they wanted to sell 100m.

Still, that isn't too bad. Especially since there is that 100m Pepsi song promotion that might have cost quite a few sales that would have happened otherwise.

Don't forget that Apple isn't giving away those Pepsi songs--they ARE sales. Pepsi pays Apple for them.

Don't forget that Apple isn't giving away those Pepsi songs--they ARE sales. Pepsi pays Apple for them.

also, the 50 million figure does not include any of the pepsi song numbers....i expect they will save that for april 28th to show how far they exceeded 100 million songs. my guess is they will get about 105 million songs by then, everything included.

I just bought some iTunes and I can't burn to a disc...help...

According to the meta-description embedded in the HP Music Site, HP should start shipping iTunes pre-installed HPs by the end of this month:



The original announcement placed pre-installed iTunes shipments in "summer". No further word on availability of the HP-branded iPod, however.