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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeff Sheeran who wrote (35970)	11/16/1997 11:19:00 AM
From: Francis Muir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

From Iomega's point of view the argument is not over exhibition-quality 810's - where, incidentally, it is not the 35mm but the Hasselblad or larger format cameras that tend to win - but the mom and pop cameras. At the moment my wife and I get most use out of a $40 Kodak Advantix, but we'll certainly get an el cheapo clik!* model when Kodak bring out that one, and it'll not cost $200 over the odds either. I can see us playing the game both ways: getting our local 1-hr FotoShop to make prints, but also loading up our home Mac with the stuff. Also, I'm certain out next Garmin differential handheld GPS will have a very accurate chart of San Francisco Bay and its environs loaded on a built-in clik!. FIDO

To: Jeff Sheeran who wrote (35970)	11/16/1997 2:54:00 PM
From: Count	Respond to of 58324

Jeff, Fuji has been gaining market share by selling at a loss in the US market while keeping magins high in their home market. This is a classic Japanese ploy made possible by a population willing to endure unfair pricing in their own market from their own companies. Fiji's four rolls for five dollars (at K-Mart) is below cost. By undercutting Kodak in the US market Fuji can gain market share without making any profit. Only when Kodak is on the ropes will Fuji capitalize. There is a practice in Japan of intimadating distributors and retail outlets with veiled threats of withholding product which would be illegal here. As long as the Japanese people allow this practice it will continue. This case is in court. But Kodak did not produce Japanese language film cartons until 1989! How lame was that? And now the digital age. Kodak is a short cantidate in my opinion. Regards, Glenn