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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Young D.T. Nguyen who wrote (4157)7/8/1996 1:11:00 AM
From: Gary Layton   of 58324
 
About the profit on a jazz disk.

I have been away from this thread for a while so this may have already been discussed. I purchased a Jazz drive a few days ago and found that one disk is included "to get you started". This disk is the "Tools Disk". It contains about 8 MB of installation files. It then contains 73.8 MB of "Jazz Tour" which are video clips of the Jass Drive. What I found most interesting though is that another 280 MB are taken up by "Musicnet" This is a company trying to get you to buy their CDs. There are video clips of albums and songs. You can even sign up and purchase via modem.

In my opinion this does 2 things. First, it takes up 350 MB of your "Tools Disk". I couldn't find any reference to the music net in the written literature supplied with the drive. A person unfamiliar might then assume that this is just part of the tools and if they want a 1 GB disk to back up their hard drive they better buy another disk from Iomega.

Second, I am sure that KE is not giving MNI Interactive Inc. 280 MB out of the goodness of his heart. I'll bet they are paying a fee for the advertisement. Do you think that that fee would be enough to cover the manufacturing cost of the disk? If so, maybe estimated profit margin on each disk has been a little low. Comments?
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