Eventually, the price will drop. Once it isn't the best thing you can put in your car, it's not going to command the prices it does today. One thing that is interesting is that with a few execeptions, the empeg doesn't seem to appeal to the but-does-it-run-linux crowd. Once the price drops will it be picked up by more of the generation that grew up reading slashdot drooling over the latest linux device or will they still be able to build one for 50-bucks-and-an-old-pentium?

I forsee the market for empegs shrinking, but the few addicts left are going to be hard core. They'll be dedicated to keeping their empegs going, but the likelyhood that there will be more of them than empegs available is slim.

Matthew