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To: Brendan2012 who wrote (43928)	1/19/1998 2:12:00 PM
From: Ken Pomaranski	Read Replies (6) of 58324

<< Cheap removable storage for handheld devices is completely new and it has alot of potential >> No one here (except maybe Rocky) realizes the magnitude of the fatal flaw of the Clik: Power consumption. Typical flash cards draw about 10-20microamps. A floppy drive can draw 2000+ times that amount. Clik!, being a mechanical device, and following the laws of Physics, will have a difficult time (if not impossible) drawing less than 100x of flash cards. The most critical parameter for handheld devices IS power consumption. Total storage capacity and cost/Mbyte is much farther down on the list. (below mechanical robustness, weight, etc..) About cost/Mbyte: don't forget that the customer foots much of the bill in a flash card solution, BUT the manufacture foots much of the bill in a CLIK! based solution. (Since the drive needs to be embedded in the product). In other words, a flash card solution cost MUCH LESS to manufacture than a Clik! solution. So the question is: what is Click's value proposition for a product company? More cost, more support circuitry, higher power.. What does the manufacture gain? This is where I have the most problems.. kp

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