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

To: Mana who wrote (137)	4/12/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: Gary Wisdom	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 166

There was an Imation ad on CNN's Money Week last night. There was also that stupid Iomega cargo plane ad. Neither ad was worth a shit. If I didn't know the company, I'd have no idea what they were pitching. However, FWIW, the Imation ad looked cheap and was worse than even the Iomega commercial. Unfortunately, it seems like the LS-120 is gaining momentum as a built-in feature of laptops while the Zip is not. Time will tell.

To: Mana who wrote (137)	4/12/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 166

>>With the popularity of PDA's and palmtop PCs, unless someone else comes along with a viable storage solution, clik! is going to have a stranglehold on the market<< Excuse me interrupting your little premature celebration, but there already IS a Standard in this niche. It's called Flash Card. In fact, Iomega's Vapor! drive is going to have to adapt to this standard in order to work. The price to even get started in Vapor! is $200. With this amount invested, there are people who will think twice about trusting their portable data to the unreliable disc technology of Vapor! Vapor! is going to have to have a Flash card adaptor in order to work with ANYTHING. Flash is tough,,small, reliable, battery friendly, and is already the Standard. Iomega's Vapor! is bulky, unreliable, and battery-hungry which is why NOT ONE OEM has agreed to install it in ANYTHING. The Vapor! drive will be bought be Iomega investors, and that's about it. It will also experience an inordinate amount of store returns for refund as data mysteriously turns up "disappearing," just as in the Iomega Bermuda Ad.