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To: Ausdauer who wrote (10166)	4/5/2000 4:49:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (4) of 60323

>>>>>Rocky, The dirt on DataPlay...<<<<< The dirt on DataPlay is that it is a Vaporware productthat curiously leaves out the fact on their website that a DRIVE is indeed necessary in order for it to work. A Drive capable of operating with this disk will bloat the size of a portable device so that it is no longer a pocket device. Witness the attempts by a couple of also-ran companies in trying to get Iomega's Clik disaster to work. >>>>>If IBM can create a self contained storage device which uses rotating media and needs to submit a request for an amended CF slot in order to accomodate the spindle mechanism......how the hell is a small upstart going to cram all that technology into a standard CF slot?<<<<< The answer is, they can't. This is just another "me-too" product along with Iomega's woe-ful Clik in a contest that is already over. Portable device designers and gott-have-it consumers have already dictated that smaller is better in portable devices- small MP3 players (Diamond Rio is very small, and Casio's MP3 Wristwatch!), Palm Pilot over larger WindowsCE devices, Fuji's incredibly well-designed and small digicams, etc etc etc. All of these mechanical devices are too little, too late for portable devices. All of the Old-Technology mechanical storage designers and engineers are running scared trying to not be forced into unemployment. Hence the formation of DatPlay by former employees of Seagate. (Seagate is suing DataPlay for stealing employees). These employees of Seagate saw a brick wall in their careers fast approaching (from solid-state storage like Sandisk CompactFlash) and bailed from Seagate. Using the only engineering they know of, mechanical disk devices, they come up with a design (not even a working prototype yet) called DataPlay. The future is clearly solid-state. And the Leader in Solid-State removable flashcards is Sandisk-- An 800lb Gorilla in the making that is only still learning to walk.

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