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

To: cruncher who wrote (53900)	4/30/1998 12:55:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

RE: Jupiter Hmmm. Interesting. I seem to recall similar machines, only they were named "Newtons." Not much success. Now they are discontinued. The real sales successes seem to come at the low end with Palm Pilots, and with full blown laptops. The Jupiter machines are supposed to come in at around $1000. This is no man's land that I think is marketing suicide. Laptop makers will be dead-set against it, as it would only cut into higher margin laptop sales. No wonder the only companies interested in making them is one Asian one, and one European one. I especially like how the "article" by Windows magazine carefully worded the Vapor! reference, "and support for removable storage media such as Iomega Corp.'s new family of 40-Mbyte Clik! drives." Seems right out of a press release. Oh, wait- let me count the number of Iomega ads that run right next to, or very close to the article. Anyone with a Windows subscription? I'll check it tomorrow at the magazine stand. My guess is 2 full page ads.