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To: Andre Williamson who wrote (20434)	6/15/2001 5:26:19 AM
From: Tumbleweed	Read Replies (2) of 60323

I can't possibly imagine Kodak execs would be this stupid ..never underestimate stupidity as a key driving force in human affairs! Well, assume they are not that stupid. What might be their motive to invest in DataPlay? Also, whilst I agree with you about the cost benefits, people dont necessarily see things that way. I may stall at buying a 100$ flash card,because it is a one-off purchase, even if in the long term I'll buy many more $'s worth of dataplay discs. Whether this happens will depends to a large extent how much KOdak (Or others) are willing to subsidise building the player into a camera (or maybe into a storage device ala click?) becausea camera with a dataplay disc drive in it ought to cost more than one with a cf/mmc slot. (and use lots more batteries but thats a separate issue) BUt the cost of teh additional batteries needs also to be added to dataplay costs. Tw

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