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Now that HP is making Ipods any chance of putting apple tunes on my
HP Ipaq?
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S- [Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:00:39 -0700]:
>No. And HP isn't making iPods, they arre making little HP stickers to put on
>Apple iPods.

http://iplay.40th.com/

o ...
o Support for aac, mp4, m4a / iTunes, along with ogg, mp3, and wav
o ...

You could say the same thing about Apple -- it doesn't
actually make them, either. HP doesn't make iPAQs --
HTC does (HTC makes Dells, too, and a whole lot more).

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Inside, these are all pretty much the same. A few buttons,
a screen (varying), memory, CPU, radio, battery, in the
same basic form-factor. HTC designs the whole thing, from
top to bottom. The OEM (HP) may set some guidelines, but
the guts and glory is all done at HTC, software included
(that which makes it run at the lower level). HP is only
badging them, too. The iPods, yeah, sure, they're identical,
but HP could just as easily have spec'ed a button here, a
button there, but then the whole idea IS to be exactly the
same, even all the faults like the dumbed-down UI and sub-par
performance (check the recent CR, or just listen to it). It
can't even do gapless play. Would you use a CD player that
-added- a gap between every track? I'd hope not, yet millions
do when they buy an iPod. It just goes to show, with a lot
of advertising and even more buzz, you can sell anything
for $500, even mediocre, maybe-worth-100-dollars, audio player.

S- [Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:27:55 -0700]:
>That was somewhat tongue in check, but having HTC build your hardware for
>you is a bit different than sticking a new sticker on a product that has
>been around for some years.
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40th Floor - Software @ http://40th.com/
iPlay : the ultimate audio player for iPAQs
mp3, ogg, mp4, m4a, aac, wav, play & record
parametric eq, xfeed, reverb - all on a ppc