Amaya Toman A cikin Janairu 2004, an gabatar da samfurin iPod a CES a Las Vegas, wanda Apple ya haɗa kai da HP. A wancan lokacin, Carly Fiorina daga Hewlett-Packard ta nuna samfurin a cikin shuɗi, wanda ya saba da samfuran HP a lokacin, ga waɗanda ke halarta yayin gabatarwa akan mataki. Amma lokacin da mai kunnawa ya ga hasken rana, ya yi alfahari da inuwar haske iri ɗaya kamar daidaitaccen iPod.
Kamfanonin Apple da Hewlett-Packard an haɗa su ta hanya tsawon shekaru da yawa. A cikin kuruciyarsa, Steve Jobs wanda ya kafa kamfanin Apple da kansa ya shirya "birged" lokacin rani a Hewlett-Packard, dayan wanda ya kafa Steve Wozniak kuma ya yi aiki a kamfanin na wani lokaci, lokacin da yake haɓaka kwamfutocin Apple-I da Apple II. . Sabbin ma'aikata da yawa a Apple kuma an dauki su daga cikin tsoffin ma'aikatan HP. Hewlett-Packard kuma shine asalin mai mallakar ƙasar da Apple Park ke tsaye a kai. Koyaya, haɗin gwiwar tsakanin Apple da HP kamar haka ya ɗauki ɗan lokaci.
Steve Jobs bai kasance mai tsananin kishin goyon bayan ba da lasisin fasahar Apple ba, kuma daya daga cikin matakan farko da ya dauka a shekarun 1990 bayan ya koma shugabancin kamfanin shine ya soke Mac clones. HP iPod don haka shine kawai yanayin lasisin wannan nau'in. A cikin wannan mahallin, Ayyuka kuma ya watsar da ainihin imaninsa kada ya ƙyale a shigar da iTunes akan kwamfutoci ban da Macs. Wani bangare na yarjejeniyar da kamfanonin biyu suka yi shi ne, sabbin kwamfutocin HP Pavilion da Compaq Presario da aka saki sun zo ne da su da iTunes – wasu sun ce wani shiri ne da Apple ya yi na hana HP shigar da Windows Media Store a kwamfutocinsa.
Ba da daɗewa ba bayan fitowar na'urar HP iPod, Apple ya gabatar da sabuntawa zuwa nasa misali iPod, kuma HP iPod ya rasa wasu daga cikin roko. Steve Jobs ya fuskanci suka daga wurare da dama, inda aka zarge shi da yin amfani da HP don amfanin kansa da kuma wayo da tsara yadda ake rarraba manhajoji da ayyukan Apple ga masu kwamfutocin da ba na Apple ba.
A ƙarshe, iPod ɗin da aka raba ya kasa kawo kudaden shiga na HP ya yi fata, kuma Hewlett-Packard ya ƙare yarjejeniyar a watan Yuli 2005 - duk da shigar da iTunes akan kwamfutocinsa har zuwa Janairu 2006.
Sannu, kuna da typo a cikin kalmar Hewlett-Packard. (Hawlett-Packard).
Na gode, gyarawa.