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

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (46398)	1/30/1998 6:45:00 PM
From: jwk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>> 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? << Good point........ but then again I am sitting here looking at page 160 of the Feb. issue of PC World. In a feature article on real-world tests by real-world users, the SONY (you've heard of them?) MAVICA MVC-FD7 is declared the BEST BUY. It says, "....is PC World's BEST BUY for several reasons. First, it simplifies two common problems with digital cameras - image storage and file transfers - by using standard, and inexpensive, 3.5 inch floppy disks as its storage media. Take a picture, pop disk into your PC, and you're done...." Now, whether or not CLIK! can wiggle into this market niche is another story. But, to consistently declare disc based storage DOA is hyperbole if not a total denial of reality. Remember too, that digital photography is only one of many planned uses for this item. Oh, the back page of this same mag is a full page ad for DELL DIMENSION XPS D300 A Computer So Perfect For Your Business, You May Not Even Buy It (come-on for their lease program). What standard feature is highlighted in bold type right in the middle of the cover on the right hand side? Why, a *Iomgega Zip 100MB Internl Drive with One Cartridge Perhaps someone should suggest to the guy who wrote that article that he should contact DELL, Micron, etc. and see why they are offering and featuring Zips in so many of their best models.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (46398)	1/30/1998 10:28:00 PM
From: Cogito	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.<< Rocky - First, let me say that I do agree with you that no one should be investing in Iomega right now because they're counting on Clik! being a big hit. It's way too early to tell. Now, to your other points. Yes, I believe that Iomega has had guidance from possible OEMs that would make Clik! a better product. They have said as much. They said that they got that guidance by taking the prototypes of n.hand around to the OEMs for feedback. That guidance, according to what we have been told, was used in refining the concept. The result was the Clik! drive, which as has been pointed out correctly, was recently the subject of a technology announcement. Many of your statements seem to be based wholely on supposition. "Of course Iomega has had units for evaluation all along," you say. On what information do you base this? There's a difference between a prototype and a device which is ready to undergo serious implementation testing. You have started with an assumption and carried on from there to conclude that OEMs have already seen the product and don't want it. I'm sorry but you don't have a leg to stand on with this statement, because you haven't based it on facts. - Allen