druid <<The question remains: Do you need
dedicated drives for Clik to be installed on camera, printer and computer to do just
that? If each drive costs over one hundred
$s, we are looking at some real cost and redundancy.>>
when moving from the candle to the lightbulb the issue was creating light cheaply. the lightbulb was redudant, at the time, as it produced actually (a) slightly less light than a candle in a dark room and (b) the lightbulb cost was about 10 times greater than the candle's (the redudant issue being "light"). redundancy may be an issue, but of possible greater importance is market acceptance. if the masses accept clik as an alternative means of storing, transporting pictures and other trivial data, then redudancy isn't an issue. it will be up to IOM's marketing department to help generate interest, need. i bought a digital camera this year and find it useful. sending pictures via the internet, though, can create (a) bandwidth problems, (b) time delays, (c) security problems, and (d) access difficulites. clik is coming late, but may fill some niche here. there are many, many areas of the world which still operate without internet access. sending 200 pictures on a clik disk through the mail may be an intermediate, economical method of data transfer until a less expensive method of internet access with broad bandwidth capabilities is developed. don't you think we'll need to wait and see? can you think of other useful, non-redundant means for clik? |
