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To: Futurist who wrote (2960)1/12/1999 11:58:00 PM
From: Ray  Read Replies (1) of 8393
 
Futurist, the article you posted contained the following:

>Too much?
However, the new MultiRead spec may attempt to do too much, warned Alan Bell,
program director for digital media standards at IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM)

"There needs to be a balance between eliminating consumer confusion and
preventing too much bundling of proprietary technology into one package," he
said. Such overloading could make the spec too expensive for manufacturers to
put into next-generation drives.

Strategic Marketing Decisions' Freeman agrees. "Manufacturers are not
interested in adding 10 or 15 dollars [in cost] to drives that the market wants to
be at $65," he said.

Meltdown potential
Add to that the variety of interests and intellectual property concerns ... and you
have a recipe for meltdown.

"I would give them as much chance as I would the Republicans and Democrats
getting together on an impeachment decision," said Freeman. <

Hmmm. Market price of $65 for read-any-format drives? WHAT! Who expects any such rediculously low price. Why is $10 or $15 dollars cost(which sounds high anyway) an insurmountable barrier to manufacturer's? Since each mfgr is burdened the same, why is this a crucial problem. The mfgr just passes it along - unless the market will actually not sustain the the paltry extra 10 to 15 dollars. Can any one make genuine sense of this? It appears to be some sort of blather.

Ray Bowman
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