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To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (980)	8/11/1998 10:06:00 PM
From: Zakrosian	Respond to of 10072

Ken - Interesting post, but I'm not sure I get the point of the article. Does it say that Iomega's problems stem from competition, and if so, just who is it that's left them nothing? LS-120 certainly hasn't taken off, nor has the "award winning" Avatar Shark. HiFD hasn't become a reality. I'd guess that the Sparq is the only real product to have cut into Iomega's sales, but it doesn't seem to have done SyQuest much good. I'd say a more realistic reason for Iomega's poor performance is that the market for upgraded removable storage is not as large as hoped for (hence Sierk's comment that IOM was going to be working on creating applications for the Zip drive); most users who need a Zip drive have one, as well as most of the disks that they require. And many new buyers are including the drive as an afterthought and aren't buying disks as the early users were.