Although the player isn't open source we're certainly *not* preventing you from writing other apps, or (when we document the APIs) adding to the player itself.

The empeg as-is will never sell to a huge market, so the developer percentage will remain small - real geeks don't like paying for hardware anyway :) Problem is, a mass-market empeg-style product would be quite cut down, and so would appeal to less geeks anyway :(

Hugo