Have you heard the news? There's this pretty successful Apple product -- starts with an "iP," ends with a "d" and has a vowel in the middle. And its average prices have dropped. Apple is (cue ominous music) doomed (cue evil cackle). Doomed, I say, repeating myself loudly so as to be heard above the sound effects.
That product is called the iPod. For now, let's confine its scope to the dedicated media players, not the iPhone-without-a-radio that will likely live on for quite a while. It has proved remarkably tenacious and dominant since its introduction in 2001, leaving only a handful of cheap players such as the SanDi
