You are without a doubt a wiser man than John, however, you do not listen! Remember how I said "ignore those that obviously do not have a clue". Now the both of you have wasted e-mail space trying to justify your points. Both points are justified, but one is a reality and one is a dream. You live in the real world Cameron...and that's where most normal people must live. John lives in vaporland. He doesn't realize that marketing is everything and we must live with it. He thinks by kicking and screaming he can get the corporate giants to abandon their marketing efforts to produce 400MB flash roms because we want it now...what the hell, make it 1 GIG, right John. Take a look at history friends...it just doesn't happen. Technology NEVER rules out over dollars and cents (and sense, too). Its not going to change for you John...if you want to gamble on vapor products that are 2 and three years down the road, because the technology sounds promising...more power to you. I would suggest the lottery...the odds are more in your favor...its more predictable.
Lets stick to the REAL world, shall we...and discuss REAL options. If flash ram is going to cost us $100.00 for 4,6, or even 10 meg (which is a generous "suppose" given the current crop of flash cards) how can you compete with less than $10 per 20 Meg of storage in a compact n-hand disk? What are we talking about here? Do you have 128MB of RAM on your home machine to run MS OFFICE on a RAMDISK or what? Even if the process of cheap flash ram becomes a reality, there will always be alternatives in the form of removable disk storage....why? Because it makes sense. We are familiar with it. And I think its safe to say it will always be cheaper to produce than the flash rom. Argue your point in production dollars and maybe you can get some credibility with it....I would sure like to know what meteor is going to strike the planet to make the production process for flashram suddenly cheaper than mass produced magnetic disks. Lay it all out for us John, lets discuss form factors, budgets, production costs. Unless you believe that the power user makes up the entire purchasing population...the guy who is willing to pay 10 times the price for the latest greatest thing, because its 30 nanoseconds faster. Check your records John, thats a small segment of the market to represent.
Cameron,
Ignore this guy, your IOMEGA stock is going to make you money..regardless of what he thinks. These are good technologies. Win or lose, you will see incarnations of these "microdisks" around for a while. Magnetic media is not going to disappear over night, contrary to what John believes.
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