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

To: Gottfried who wrote (42015)	1/2/1998 6:54:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>Another mistake is to assume that sheer volume sold proves that the product is of uniformly good quality.<< GM - Agreed. I'm sure that some Zip, Jaz and Ditto drives and media are defective. No mass-produced product is perfect every time. I have even had the experience of having a brand new Intel Pentium processor fail. I don't mean that it had a floating point bug, I mean it would not operate in protected mode. That meant I could run DOS on it, but not Windows 95. I do believe that if a high percentage of Intel processors failed in this way, then AMD and Cyrix would sell a lot more of their products. No company can maintain such a huge share of a market without satisfying most of their customers. This applies to Iomega as well. I simply cannot ignore the fact that in my personal experience, in a broad range of environments, Zip and Jaz owners who are happy are the norm. Yes, many of the people who are posting on the Iomega Zip/Jaz newsgroup are unhappy. But this amounts to a statistically insignificant sample relative to the number of units sold by Iomega. I have yet to see any reliable evidence to contradict my own experience. Yes, I have a long position in IOM, so I could be considered biased. But if I believed that Iomega's products were unreliable as a general rule, I would close out that long position in a hot New York minute. (At a nice profit, I must say.) - Allen