Sheila, would you please post some links for the Digital Camera articles that you have been reading. I'm sure that this is going to be huge and clik™ will be The Standard. Those that think otherwise are the same type of people that just a few years ago asked "why would anyone need a computer in their house?"
Did you see this Website by a guy that was at Condex?
look.net
Here are a few excerpts from that site:
"In fact, the impression I got from the IOM folks is that
clik! will eventually dwarf Zip sales. That's because
clik! can become a standard in both computers AND
consumer electronics."
"A lady from CNF gave us what appeared to be a
hastily produced black and white flyer announcing a
clik! laptop solution, using a PC-Card Type III
adapter. ;-D
CNF is calling it the "cardBAY" (TM) family of
low-cost drives for mobile products. The card will
allow clik! to interface with all kinds of PDA's,
computers, cameras, etc....
clik! could indeed turn out to be Zip's only serious
competition for laptop!"
"But most impressive of all was seeing the clik! in action.
They had a prototype Hitachi camera shooting 1 mb
pix, which were being dumped off to an amazing new
printer that Polaroid was introducing at Comdex. The
printer was not much larger than a Jaz drive and spit out
digital prints that seemed to be continuous tone
photographs....even under an 8x magnification printer's
lupe I couldn't find any dots. This boy has been worked
in advertising and graphics for nearly 20 years, and I've
never seen anything like it."
"... I bumped into IOM
General Sales Manager Tony Lagalante. I took
the opportunity to ask him about clik! oems, as well as
those weak endorsement letters last week from Kodak,
HP, etc...
"Those companies didn't write those letters to waste
their time," Lagalante smiled. "They're all
currently designing products using clik! It's
just that these companies, as a rule, do not
pre-announce products."
The other area that i think clik™ is going to dominate is PDAs. IMHO, today's PDAs are toys compare to what we will see in the next year or two. The problem today is that they have little tiny keyboards that no one can type on..... but that problem has been fixed:
naturalspeech.com
no need to type, just speak in a normal voice. Everyone will have a PDA (to get voice mail, email, FAX and (of course) trade stocks wirelessly. And where are we going to store that data and how will we transfer it to our PCs?
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