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To: Kunal Taravade who wrote (35894)	11/15/1997 1:29:00 PM
From: Cogito	of 58324

>>I am sorry to say that Iomega may have missed the bus on digital cameras. If the retail models will be available in the "second half" of 1998, (which could mean a year from now), they will be in direct competition with 80MB or 160 MB or even possible 200MB flash cards which cost about $2/MB, making the clik disk/drive combo inherently too expensive/too slow to compete in the digital camera (DC) market.<< Kunal - Would you rather pay $400 for one 200MB flash card, or $240 for one Clik! drive and four extra disks, yielding the same 200MB of storage? To me, the latter choice is more attractive, especially as it allows me to add storage in 40MB increments for around 10 bucks. The speed issue is a red herring as well. The specs given for Clik! are quite respectable. Later, I may look up the throughput numbers for flash, but I remember being surprised at how slow the write functions of flash are. It's not virtually instantaneous like computer RAM. Hence, your contention that Clik! will fail in the digital camera market is, IMO, incorrect. - Allen

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