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To: Bruno Cipolla who wrote (24559)	1/15/2004 9:55:23 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Respond to of 60323

re: flash v. firewire--The advantage of flash, which people sometimes ignore, is NO MOVING PARTS. That means a lot when you consider things like reliability and ruggedness. People who are security minded about their digital files will be willing to pay a little extra for those features. And flash prices keep dropping. Let's see, if I recall correctly, I paid almost $700 for a 10 mb hard drive back about 15 years ago. Hey, flash is cheap! Art

To: Bruno Cipolla who wrote (24559)	1/15/2004 11:04:06 AM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Bruno, I agree with what you say. BTW, did not hear the MOT announcement at the Las Vegas electronics convention. SNDK must be waiting for MOT to announce. In any case this goes against my initial thoughts of a unified flash standard. If anything the types and subtypes of flash cards gets more and more segmented. SNDK already has 3 different types of USB drive, including the first Cruzer misadventure. I like the USB-MP3 player mating. I hope they can do the same by promoting a USB connector to an inexpensive digital video camera. For the meantime SD will suffice. Aus

To: Bruno Cipolla who wrote (24559)	1/15/2004 3:21:48 PM
From: clean86	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

"Mac users have lots of them (firewire)" yes, but mac is just 2-3% of market, so they don't matter Maybe in the PC market but in the Music player Business they are the Gorilla with a 70% market share. They are targeting the high end flash player market and since it is teens and young people that mostly buy the iPod there is vast room for improvement with flash only players especially in the cost and amount of storage available. I can still get a 4 gig iPod for $250. I don't like the idea of a spinning drive that small but many only look at price. Gigs for 250$ will happen approximately in 2007-2008 not that far away... In computer years that's an eternity. Clean