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

To: Cogito who wrote (46389)	1/30/1998 5:20:00 PM
From: Craig Richards	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Don't you find it strange that apparently there were working demos of Clik! at the big press conference last fall, even one in a Hitachi camera of some sort, and then during the conference call KE says that the evaluation units aren't ready? If there are no evaluation units ready, why did they have the big press conference last fall? And what did they demo at the press conference? Reports I read indicated that working models of Clik! were at the press conference. How could they have produced working models without making evaluation units? Also, if there are no evaluation units ready, I would classify last fall's press conference as another technology announcement. This was the 2nd technology announcement for this product. So IOM can hype when it wants to. When will there be a product announcement?

To: Cogito who wrote (46389)	1/30/1998 5:21:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>>Since no OEM could possibly decide to include Clik! in a product without having evaluation units in hand, they have not yet had the chance to reject it.<< Are you sure?. First of all, No.hand was soundly rejected after evaluation by OEM's. Are you saying that Iomega has had no guidance from possible OEM's concerning specifications and designs that would make Vapor! a better product? Of course Iomega has had had units for evaluation all along. Witness Hitachi, who demonstrated a prototype at Comdex. The fact is, Iomega presently has intentions of shipping Vapor! before ANY OEM's allow it into their devices. This is because nobody wanted it. Iomega obviously wants to demonstrate a demand for Vapor! as an external add-on in a hope of allowing skeptical OEMs (and me) to see how the public accepts this new mini-drive. -And, how reliably it holds up in real life. Some companies seem unwilling to budge from their hard line concerning disc drives. On Nikon's web page, they say they do not allow disc drive technology into their products because of reliability problems. How many others have this same policy? Will Vapor! change the minds of Nikon, other OEM's, and myself? We'll see. But until then, I caution investors to temper their enthusiasm for the success of Vapor!