Taking on the iPod would be corporate suicide.

Microsoft can do it - they can afford to throw $100 million at the
market and then say "oh well" at the end of the day when it just
doesn't catch on.  They're not the type to just say "oh well" and call
it quits though, they have the money to be able to enter the market by
brute force.

Though I don't know the particulars of Slim Devices' financial
situation, I can safely say they don't have the financial clout of
Microsoft.  ;-)

Everyone who wants an iPod already has one.  The holdouts either just
hate Apple and everything they do or they just don't want a portable
player, period.  Slim would only be able to go after the Apple haters. 
That's a niche within a niche.


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