Rob over at Designtechnica discusses the somewhat bloated mp3 player market, & the decline & fall of the once dominant Rio line of players. Careful with that title, Rob, you're gonna get the creationists/intelligent design folks up in arms ;)

"This week, D&M holding killed the RIO line of MP3 players because they simply could not compete with the iPod. What makes this amazing is that a few years ago the RIO, then owned by S3, was competing with Creative Labs for this market and was largely believed to be the company to beat."