"it was all about music."

When it was about music...it was really about the ability to, in very fast development fashion, devise a music player. That, because of patented circuit issues allowing for many options, such as multi CODEC issues , power usage , different media types hard drive to flash drive...etc as well as memory management and interfacing PC's.

I can appreciate your consideration, however it was totally different for me.

All of the different platforms they put out, in the way of products, have different contributions of their technology....and where IMO, put out for that reason...to show off ability.

Each product had a deliberate offering for the news.

FWIW

doni