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

To: Travis who wrote (1553)	7/8/1999 9:07:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

>>Everything you have stated is an engineering problem to overcome. CF does not just magically double in capacity every six months. Engineers are working to make that happen. Engineers at IOM can and will do the same.<< Iomega does not have the resources to keep up with an entire commodity industry dedicated to out-doing each other. I believe Toshiba makes the actual chipsets for Sandisk, and Toshiba has a vastly larger and superior R&D department than does Iomega. You can see this as well in the disk drives like Seagate and Maxtor. Every other month we get another leap of capacity from 10 to 20 to 30 Gigs per drive. This is because there is an entire industry racing with each other to stay ahead. Iomega, using a seperate technology than the rest of the market, cannot afford to spend the money it takes to keep up. Iomega is simply not big enough of a company to do it. But they have to. Iomega is being left farther and farther behind. Plus, last I heard, Iomega was firing people. This doesn't seem to me that their R&D department is growing to meet the challenge.