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To: Steven Seefeldt who wrote (8841)4/9/1999 12:27:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid  Read Replies (2) of 10072
 
>>If IOM comes out with a Clik Camera and the stock spikes up, I'm sell all my shares!<<

Well, that would be nice I guess, but it's best to temper that with a little realism. IOM stock may get a bump from such an announcement. But I think that Wall Street is so fed up with Iomega's letdowns that many will refuse to buy IOM at any price. This ill-will does no good in trying to get Institutional support, which is necessary for long term price appreciation.

As for any Flop! camera, don't be too suprised if such a camera is a lot more expensive than what you currently guess. It is my assertion that any Flop! camera will sell for no less than $799 MSRP- and Possibly higher. And this will get you a LESS feature-laden camera than comparatively priced rivals. And any Flop!-based camera will certainly have to be physically LARGER than competitors in order to fit in the drive.

In order to keep the price down to $799 while still maintaining some kind of profit, they may sacrifice CCD quality and use an older CCD chip. They will almost certainly have to do away with features in new OS's like in-camera photo manipulation and cropping.

Remember, according to Iomega's own figures, Flop! drives cost a LOT more to include inside digicams than CompactFlash or Smartmedia cards. The camera makers still have to make some kind of profit off the sale of the camera. And...this all goes without even mentioning the RELIABILITY of a camera with a built-in Flop! drive. Hence the high price of a Flop camera. As a result, don't expect much in the way of spectacular volumes of Flop! drives moving with cameras.
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