News from a couple days ago says that HP will be dropping their sales of the iPod.

Read about it: HP Says It Will Stop Selling iPods.

Although this particular situation was not forecasted, it is not surprising. Apple never has been very generous when it stretches itself out to share its product lines with other companies. In other words, in the end, they either pull out of the deal, or they give the cooperating company the short end of the stick.

Unfortunately, this may be spawned by a “we don’t need them” kind of attitude; ironically enough, in this instance, that is probably true.