I'd say with the new mp3 players comming out now there probably isn't a reason to do this. We Empeggers get the reward for being early adopters, that is the one product that did everything right. Now the whole project is going to get dumbed down for consumers, which was the inevitable next step.

My feeling (possibly with no basis in reality) has been that we aren't too far away from having PCs built into our cars. If that happens anytime soon (within the next five years) any car based mp3 player is going to become a moot point with the loads of mp3 software already available for download. Not that everyone will move away from CDs when built in PCs come along, but all the geeks (like us) who use mp3 now will no doubt make every use possible out of having a computer in the car.