Good Technology releases their MP3 player for Handspring. Slashdot readers point out how pointless and expensive this is. One reader mentions another Handspring MP3 player, the MiniJam, scheduled to ship last month, that sounds like a better deal. VisorCentral has a review of the MiniJam. Another Slashdot reader suggests a much better alternative for that price.

Yet another Slashdot reader thinks Palm Pilots and derivatives (Handsprings) are a waste of money entirely. With no growth potential, other PC-based handhelds are already prepared to do much more as soon as a few months from now, and some even run Linux.

He and others seem to be neglecting the idea that the Handspring is prepared to be the multi-use handheld GUI for other devices (not that it's a cost-effective solution for an MP3 player, but it's a good idea in principle), and is only starting with Palm functionality to proliferate the devices. It's platform. It's a device. It's a plavice.

Yet another reader properly mentions: "There's just not that much indexing you can do with an hour or two's worth of music."