How Steve Jobs played Carly Fiorina like a fool

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/02/1427090/-How-Steve-Jobs-played-Carly-Fiorina-like-a-fool

The 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.