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

To: the Druid who wrote (43908)	1/19/1998 12:21:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

druid <<The question remains: Do you need dedicated drives for Clik to be installed on camera, printer and computer to do just that? If each drive costs over one hundred $s, we are looking at some real cost and redundancy.>> when moving from the candle to the lightbulb the issue was creating light cheaply. the lightbulb was redudant, at the time, as it produced actually (a) slightly less light than a candle in a dark room and (b) the lightbulb cost was about 10 times greater than the candle's (the redudant issue being "light"). redundancy may be an issue, but of possible greater importance is market acceptance. if the masses accept clik as an alternative means of storing, transporting pictures and other trivial data, then redudancy isn't an issue. it will be up to IOM's marketing department to help generate interest, need. i bought a digital camera this year and find it useful. sending pictures via the internet, though, can create (a) bandwidth problems, (b) time delays, (c) security problems, and (d) access difficulites. clik is coming late, but may fill some niche here. there are many, many areas of the world which still operate without internet access. sending 200 pictures on a clik disk through the mail may be an intermediate, economical method of data transfer until a less expensive method of internet access with broad bandwidth capabilities is developed. don't you think we'll need to wait and see? can you think of other useful, non-redundant means for clik?

To: the Druid who wrote (43908)	1/19/1998 12:26:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Respond to of 58324

>Do you need dedicated drives for Clik to be installed on camera, printer and computer to do just that?< No, it will be like the current PP Zip and you plug it into the device you want to transfer to/from. Of course, it can be built in that is the device mfg.s option.

To: the Druid who wrote (43908)	1/19/1998 12:42:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 58324

>>We know that. The question remains: Do you need dedicated drives for Clik to be installed on camera, printer and computer to do just that? If each drive costs over one hundred $s, we are looking at some real cost and redundancy.<< It gets worse. Iomega has already stated that external Vapor! drives will cost $200. OEM drives will cost the manufacturer anywhere from $75 to $100. The manufacturer will then put their markup price on this "bonus" feature. In response to Frank Drumond's arguments concerning the already available PC cards in cameras, may I remind you that these cards are only available in the higher priced units. For the under $500 or so crowd (as if $500 for a camera is a low price), there is generally no removable storage on board. And Vapor! will be another $100 or so incentive not to join the crappy-picture revolution that digital photography champions.