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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Cogito who wrote (46389)1/30/1998 5:21:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid  Read Replies (2) of 58324
 
>>Since no OEM could possibly decide to include Clik! in a product without having evaluation units in hand, they have not yet had the chance to reject it.<<

Are you sure?. First of all, No.hand was soundly rejected after evaluation by OEM's. Are you saying that Iomega has had no guidance from possible OEM's concerning specifications and designs that would make Vapor! a better product?

Of course Iomega has had had units for evaluation all along. Witness Hitachi, who demonstrated a prototype at Comdex. The fact is, Iomega presently has intentions of shipping Vapor! before ANY OEM's allow it into their devices. This is because nobody wanted it. Iomega obviously wants to demonstrate a demand for Vapor! as an external add-on in a hope of allowing skeptical OEMs (and me) to see how the public accepts this new mini-drive. -And, how reliably it holds up in real life.

Some companies seem unwilling to budge from their hard line concerning disc drives. On Nikon's web page, they say they do not allow disc drive technology into their products because of reliability problems. How many others have this same policy?

Will Vapor! change the minds of Nikon, other OEM's, and myself? We'll see. But until then, I caution investors to temper their enthusiasm for the success of Vapor!
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