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To: Starlight who wrote (19929)4/3/2001 12:37:00 PM
From: Andre Williamson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 60323
 
Dataplay - another 2c

My gut instinct says that being in the middle of the road (ie ruggedness, size, storage, cost) means that Dataplay will get run over.

I think re-writeable flash memories will drop enough in price, and fast enough, that people will be able to store plenty on them, so that if the goal is lightweight and rugged, flash will win out, while those for whom storage is the main issue will go with a cheaper solution like a CD/mp3 player or something with a hard drive like Nomad. Also, write-once is painfully wasteful from the consumer's viewpoint. If it's only a buck a disk, fine, but above that I think many will get dissuaded.

Andre



To: Starlight who wrote (19929)4/3/2001 4:03:59 PM
From: Tumbleweed  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 60323
 
Remember when I first mentioned Data Play last Nov., and no one felt it was any threat?:

Do you know how much these things cost? That will determine how much of a threat to solid state it will be.
Another interesting thing to know would be Dataplays burn rate. That will probably be the deciding factor. Can they reach orbit before their fuel runs out? They wont get a mid-flight IPO refuel in this climate.

Tw


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