>> I don't see why anyone would possibly want a low-capacity MP3 player.

Another reason might be the transient nature of popular music. While Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak etc. are immortal in a sense, most popular music is here today, gone tomorrow. How many songs that were popular a year ago can you remember? Of those, how many do you still play?

So you load your Rio up with what's hot this week, and next week it's a whole new playlist, and very little nostalgia for the "old" stuff. No need for a lot of storage capacity.

At the other extreme, at least 95% of my music is 100 years old or more -- I need the large storage capacity of the empeg because I NEVER get rid of any of it. I may need 100 GB hard drives someday...

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