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Non-Tech : Rocky's Personal Iomega Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FuzzFace who wrote (49)	1/19/1998 11:12:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 166

Rocky - Speaking of "Everything in that post is true," let me just make a few comments. >>The best feature that the Vapor! drive has is the capacity to raise the already astronomical prices of crappy-picture taking digital cameras by AT LEAST another $100.<< Haven't seen actual pricing yet, so we do not know. However, there are several things wrong with this statement. First, The Clik! drive will NOT add $100 to the price of a digital camera. If a digital camera currently has a flash card, and the required electronics for same, then the cost for that is a few bucks for the interface electronics and AT LEAST fifteen to thirty bucks for the first card, which will only be 2 or 4 MB. If Clik! OEM drives cost what Iomega says they will to OEMs, which is "less than $100," then the additional cost to the consumer would be somewhat less than 100 bucks, since the flash interface and card are no longer required. That's 100 bucks or less, for 40MB of storage, not 2 to 4. >>Then...in order to print them out on your own computer utilizing the oh-so-convienient Vapor! medium, you will need to buy an ADDITIONAL $200 Vapor! drive for your desktop. There will be no "Zip caddy" to directly insert a Vapor! disc into a Zip drive. This means more clutter for your desktop.<< Well, no, not necessarily. First, digital cameras today use cables to connect to the computer. Very few people have flash card readers installed in their PCs. So using the Clik! drive built into the computer would not be any less convenient than the current system, because you could just use the cable to connect. But wait! Some special photo printers DO have flash card readers built-in. No need for a computer at all. Such printers could either have Clik! built-in. Yes, that would raise the cost of the printer, but it would be so much more convenient. >>My oh My, what a wonderful invention. No wonder there are NO OEM's lined up to actually buy this wonderful battery-drainer and put it in their devices.<< Well, true, they have not been announced yet. That doesn't mean that the camera manufacturers, etc., are as blind as you are to the clear benefits of Clik!. So your implication that the silly arguments you gave against Clik! are the reasons that the OEMs have not yet announced products with it is false. Let's see what happens over the next few months. Meanwhile, all of this ignores the greatest benefit of Clik!. It's a lot more storage for a lot less money than flash. In other words, for the same reason you, Rocky, believe that SparQ is a better deal than Zip, I believe that Clik! will be a better deal than flash. So you see, Rocky, to say that "everything in that post was true" was really stretching. - Allen