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Non-Tech : Iomega:Zip drives - a "standard" for the PC?
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To: DeCoda who wrote (82)5/7/1996 7:53:00 PM
From: Jason Wortham   of 156
 
> The 128MB is not a "might" I have seen the drive and it works great
> Also yes first to market makes money but the lower cost unit that
> also has a good margin will win. Anyway I'm a tech guy so I look at > it from a design not marketing point of view. Iomega and it's > shareholders will get rich and the poor consumer will pay when the > "new standard" falls flat on it's ass.

So what. The zip200 is also not a 'might', and it is also faster than the 128 which you refer to as being 20ms. Zip200 beats it by 3ms at 17ms. I do not recall transfer rates, but so what if a competitor has something in the works which compares poorly with something which Iomega has in the works.

I don't see the consumer losing this one.

You have a really strange bias. Perhaps you can explain it to me? It does not seem to be based on the performance of the drive, but on some emotional point of view.
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