>>Furthermore, were still at the 22 million mark, is the market for this product saturated or what?<<
Zead -
Still at 22 million? This announcement marks the first time that the 22 million number has been mentioned. Last milestone mention, as of February 17, was 21 million.
Remember, the company is not announcing the million unit milestones as they occur anymore. They are simply putting the latest numbers into press releases that are about other things. Thus, we don't know how long ago the 22 million number was passed.
BTW, when I was checking on the number from that 2/17 press release, I saw something I hadn't noticed before. It says that "Recently, Iomega shipped the one millionth Zip® Built-In™ drive to both Dell and Apple Computer." While that sentence is rather odd, grammatically, I take it to mean that both Apple and Dell have bought more than one million internal Zip drives to be built in to their computers.
Now, the last numbers I have seen for sales of Superdisk drives put them at about three and a half million. That's total sales in the history of the product.
Just two of Iomega's OEM customers have bought over two million drives between them. Once again, I think that demonstrates just who is killing who in the OEM battle.
- Allen |
