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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (1397)	7/5/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

I have always liked Iomega's marketing machine and R&D. Although I am not hot for ZIP's anymore, I see Iomega can see the future of music distribution: rock.com iomega.com My interest in the future distribution of music: Subject 23995

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (1397)	7/6/1999 1:15:00 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 5023

>>This mis-statement is now proved incorrect by the top-20 list in your last post. 6 of the top 20 digicams are Mavicas. This by itself would suggest that at the most, 30% of these are floppy-based cameras. If you were to add in all the other digiams on the market, then you would probably be left with less than 20% being Floppy Mavicas.<< Elmer - Better re-check your math. The 30% number you derive appears to be based on the assumption that the top 20 cameras on the list all sell roughly equal amounts, when that isn't likely to be the case. Let's say 1000 total cameras are sold, and I make a list of the top twenty models. The number one camera might have sold 900 units, or it might have sold 90. There's no way to tell. The fact that the number one camera outsells its nearest competitor by more than two to one doesn't prove whether or not the Mavica has 40% of the market either. In the example I used above, you could have one camera that sold 200 units, which beats one which sold 100 by two to one, but that would still leave room for some other group of cameras to capture more than 40% of the market. There might be six different cameras which sell 90, 85, 80, 75, 70 and 65 units respectively. That would add up to 465 total units. - Allen