ironbut

If you really want to kill Sony's Minidisc efforts dead forever, hope as you are, that they beat heads against the ipod, playback steamroller! I don't think that anyone with a whit of marketing knowhow would introduce any product at this time against it. It could be 10 times better, half the size and 1/4 the cost and the ipod would still stomp it into the ground. Or, more to the point, it wouldn't even notice it as it faded into obscurity. If you haven't noticed, ipod Means portable player, and sony know this because at one time Walkman meant the same thing. In 2004 Apple announced that 2 million ipods had been sold. In the first quarter of this year (ending 4/1/06) over 8.5 million ipods were sold. When a product is that hot, you just get out of the way. So forget about it. I love my mz m100 and if you want a minidisc, buy one! They're going for less than half retail now.

Any word on the Mac software? The previews said that the Mac software was supposed to have " increased functionality" ( hopefully drag and drop from computer to minidisc ). Actually, the bare-bones nature of the current software is fine for my uses and the lack of excess baggage is kind of nice.