I'm with you, FerretBoy.

We can sit and list features that the empeg doesn't have, and that future non-empeg products might have (big color screen, solid state storage, etc.). But I highly doubt any upcoming mass-market products will be quite as flexible as the empeg in terms of the software.

I'm willing to be proven wrong. In fact, I'd love that. If something comes out that's got software features equally as flexible as the empeg, and also all the hardware features we dream of, then everybody benefits.

Something tells me that if such a product appears, a certain group of people from Cambridge will still be the ones writing the software.