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

To: Cogito who wrote (43288)	1/13/1998 1:14:00 PM
From: Tom Carroll	Respond to of 58324

RE: Shark Sightings Allen, Brent, and all, I think the Shark is cool, too. I played with one a little bit at PC Expo in NYC last June. As I said at the time in a posting to this thread, it impressed me the most of all the potential Iomega competitors at the show. I think its sales are probably climbing, too. There were about a half dozen Sharks on the shelves at the Albany, NY, COMP USA last weekend. My impression is that they are selling them reasonably well. But get the external Zip down close to a hundred bucks, and get the laptop Zip out there in quantity and costing just a little less than it costs now, and get internal Zips into the majority of desktops, and the Shark will be reduced back to a niche at best, I suspect. Iomega is working on all these fronts. Just IMHO. As I see it, the Zip isn't the vulnerable element in the Iomega family. The Jaz is. The Jaz is a good product--I own one and use it regularly--but it's pricey, not all that proprietary in its design, and too limited in capacity for gilt-edged backup purposes. It does have a good head start on the competition, but that can be overcome just as Syquest's lead at the service agencies was beat if somebody can produce as much of a winner in the 103-plus-MB area as the Zip is at the 102-MB area. More IMHO, of course. Happy trading, all. Cheers, Tom (long IOM)