i begun as a fan of md and was a hardened sharp auvi lover but then i found that their lack of computer support was hard to get by. sony players were my next haven and i had the latest at the time sony mzrh10 hi md. then, still hating apple, i went for cowon, meizu, archos and had a fling with iriver.
in the end, hating the apple sound, i went for an ipod and found that i preferred its sound to the others and the fact that it was easy to use. the meizu was not bad but the sony, cowon models were terribly supported if you did not have windows to run jetaudio or monkeys or sonicstage.
yeah, i moved to the white side - apple