I think PSP is going to be the most SUCCESSFUL handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in TERMS of the VERSATILITY, obviously you can download MUSIC to it, and you'll be ABLE to enjoy all your great tunes on it.
Until you USE the IPAD for a COUPLE of weeks, you can't APPRECIATE it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
In the CREATIVE industries, there are few THINGS more exciting than a zinger - a thought, IDEA, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new TASTE idea in COOKING. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.
I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't WORRIED that the digital reader would ruin LITERATURE as we know it. Rather, my CONCERN centered on using an electronic DEVICE in the bathtub.