How many years before MP3 becomes king?

The Apple lossless format is still 6x the size of a typical 128 kbps MP3 or AAC file. In what ways is it better for the iPod user?

The line of succession is:

Elvis (Emeritus),
then—Charles,
then—the two princely tots (one at a time, of course),
then— Secretary Rumsfeld,
then—the guy who does anal searches at airport security in Baltimore, (no, not “same as above,” shame on you...let's wave that flag now),
then—MP3.

Here is the link I was talking about:

http://www.audio-ideas.com/reviews/mp3/audio-request-arq-1.html

if you're capable of reading this thread you probably already have a pc that can do everything that mp3 player can do, provided you also download 1 or 2 free programs.

$800 dollars is INSANE for a Celeron processor and a 20 GB hard drive. Read further and you will see that they charge you $400.00 for an additional 10 GB. That's criminal! Hard drive space is currently 50cents per GB, not 40 dollars! jeez!

i think the player is geared toward computer illiterate folk who dont realize that its highway robbery.

it also sucks that it wont play the most popular types of lossless compression: flac and shn.

I wasn't recommending the product, I was only imagining the time in the near future when CD's and LP's are going to be obsolete.

Like it or not, thousands of dollars worth of equipment is going to be obsolete by 2010, IMO.