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

To: Cogito who wrote (2023)	7/29/1999 11:56:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

Re: Disk Trend >>What was that you were saying about accountability and credibility?<< Credibility? Well, for one thing, I don't charge $$$ thousands of Dollars for reports that miss estimates by over 40%. If I had paid big money for crappy estimates, I'd be pretty upset. As for your claim that I missed CD sales, CD blank disk sales for CD-R/W drives are in excess of 1.7 Billion units PER MONTH and INCREASING. bizns.nikkeibp.co.jp I have been warning Iomaniacs about the popularity of CD-R/W only to be ridiculed. Now, even poor Iomega has to admit defeat and offer a too-little too-late entry (ZipCD) into the very market that is crushing their Margins into the ground.

To: Cogito who wrote (2023)	7/30/1999 12:32:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 5023

Allen, you said to Elmer >So in 1996, DiskTrend expected more high capacity floppy drives to be sold in 1999 than are actually going to be sold. And you assume that this is because they were too bullish on IOM.< In summer of 1997 I attended a talk given by Jim Porter of DiskTrend. Iomega was hardly even mentioned and Mr Porter said [I paraphrase] the relatively high price of ZIP would prevent it [and its competitors] from displacing the 1.44 MB floppy. I think DiskTrend bases forecasts on facts and trends and does a professional job of it. A 1996 prediction of any computer peripherals sales in 1999 is necessarily going to be proven to be off by the actual numbers. [Who would have predicted $400 PCs back them?] Gottfried