Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Wal-Mart - Steve Jobs was right

He noted that Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL) iPod digital music players were among the items conspicuously absent from Wal-Mart's shelves last year. The reason was that Wal-Mart was in a "philosophical argument" with Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs over whether the iPod player should play music from more varied sources, Fitzsimmons said.

"He won, we lost. Now we have Nanos in the stores," Fitzsimmons said, referring to the latest, smallest version of the iPod. Story