Whaaaaaaat???????

1) Yesterday Creative announces the Zen Vision: M. On paper the specifications look impressive, beating the iPod Video with a better screen, bigger storage, better file handling capacity, and other features such as FM tuner, voice recorder, image zoom, etc.

Although this could be the definite iPod killer, or at least the device that de-stabilizes Apple's ridiculous mp3 player monopoly, I kept hearing "lawsuit". I mean, the thing looks like an iPod Video. Time for Apple's lawyers to get busy. Or so I thought:

2) Today Creative announces that it will sue Apple. Turns out that Creative filed an mp3 player menu navigation patent on January 2001. Apple released the iPod October 2001. Creative's patent application was awarded this August, while Apple's user interface patent has been rejected, also this August.

3) At $8 a share (vs. $70 for Apple), now is the time to invest in Creative stock.