Not the best news for Apple ...

Well, first for the fanboys claiming that Apple was the original inventor - well, it seems that Creative might actually be right - but since the wise business decision was to avoid a long court battle I guess they weren't so eager to just prove Apple wrong again ... and they took the money :)

Far more dangerous is the fact that Apple is no longer the 'cool player' - the latest Sandisk is twice better for the same price and has a LOT of extra features (including a decent inexpensive way to change your battery - not the total ripoff that you get from Apple).

In other news Dell is silently exiting the MP3 player market - they were never serious about that and the product was pathetic so no loss here ...