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

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (54985)	5/19/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: robert read	Respond to of 58324

DEC Japan Launches Digital Creation Studio (Comline Computers; 05/19/98) Nippon Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC Japan) has launched its Digital Creation Studio, a personal workstation specializing in the "media contents creation" field of desktop publishing, computer graphics, and animation/game development. Digital Creation Studio is available in two versions, the Digital Personal Workstation 333i+, which uses an Intel processor, or the Digital Personal Workstation 500a, which uses an Alpha processor. Both come with CorelDRAW, MetaCreations' Painter, a 100MB Zip drive. They also have 64MB of memory. The Intel model will be shipped beginning in June, 1998, while the Alpha model shipments will start in July.

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (54985)	5/19/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: Minotaur	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

<<I think that the most likely resolution of the Nomai litigation is of a limited licensing deal with Nomai where they could produce Zip disks for distribution in Europe/Asia. They'd have to be branded Iomega.>> Philip, I have disassembled numerous Zip disks, and two Nomai disks. The XHD is CHEAP. Iomega's disk production costs must be lower than Nomai's even though the XHD components are cheap. The XHD sells in quantity to end users at $9-10. Iomega will soon drop prices on media, so that end-users will be able to buy the real McCoy at retail (list) of about $9-10. Nomai cannot produce in sufficient quantities to do real damage to Iomega. The only threat presented by the XHD is the possibility that Nomai may license production to someone with the production capacity to crank them out in volume. Put Iomega's brand on the Nomai disk? Not in this lifetime.

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (54985)	5/19/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 58324

Philip, I'm saving your post to read again later. You have given more thought to the issues than I have. Most of all, it was a joy to read a well-reasoned post again on this thread. The mood on the thread is turning more positive without becoming exuberant. I'm hanging in there to see what happens next. GM

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (54985)	5/20/1998 8:05:00 AM
From: Robert Neville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>>In any case, the Clik news was welcome, though I'm not convinced that the drive will contribute more than "niche" interest revenues. Digital camera sales, however are exploding. There might just be something to Clik!.<<< Enjoyed your thoughts, Phillip. I'm surprised you feel that way about clik!. Personally, I think that between handheld computers and digital cameras, Clik may surpass Zip. In particular, handheld computers are the sleeper, IMO. The OEM clik! is of a size that nicely fits into a type 3 PCMCIA slot, and I'm sure it's no coincidence that so many of these machines have such a slot. With the small (read tiny) size of handhelds, the floppy becomes impractical, unless of course you want to lug one around a separate unit...which kind of defeats the purpose of having such a compact machine in the first place.. The Clik drive is made to order, size and capacity wise, for this application. Bob