lickly...
Lyra unit is hardly significant competition...
Lyra unit is probably made by Open Globe, an engineering firm who was around as far back as CES 2000...
Although, the DAP market did not develope as EDIG had hoped,(multicodec operational units, which originally were selling as high as $1500.00 dollars), thus allowing customers like RCA to approach Open Globe for design of their Lyra units, there is still no indication that Open Globe has evolved into a serious compitition with the direction EDIG has taken...
As far as YEPP-900 is concerned, with all that has been said about it on this board, no one has convinced me that EDIG has nothing to do with it. It is too dang simillar to 0-1000, and EDIG's relationship with SAMSUNG is long standing and continues to this date...
Regards...Gilgamash...