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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation
WDC 174.21+6.9%3:59 PM EST
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To: Ausdauer who wrote (17707)12/28/2000 4:12:23 PM
From: Arby  Read Replies (1) of 60323
 
Here is a little more d.d. written at a time when my enthusiasm for SanDisk hadn't been worn thin.

Could you elaborate on this?

...other than the fact that SmartMedia is probably the more dominant form factor for digital cameras for the time being, and is almost certainly the dominant MP3 medium.

Why do you say that SmartMedia is dominant for digital cameras? I see that Olympus and Fuji are committed to SmartMedia but Canon, Casio and Nikon are committed to CompactFlash. My search of www.dpreview.com shows 65 cameras using CompactFlash and 52 using SmartMedia (and 8 and 3 using Memory Stick and PCMCIA respectively). It looks like a draw for CompactFlash and SmartMedia with a high cost to switch for either camp. Has this ratio changed recently? I have not looked at MP3 applications but wouldn't the lower cost of CompactFlash be an advantage here?
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