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To: HardMoney who wrote (4144)	12/27/1998 8:09:00 AM
From: rll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Frank, Let's wait and see how rugged the built-in clik! drive truly is before proclaiming lost flash sales due to it. It has to be insensitive to motion when used in a digital camera, pda, ... I know, I wouldn't like delays every time I moved because the heads pulled into a safe position. Solid state memory is the future, the only advantage clik! has now is the disk price of $10 (when bought in ten packs). Don't forget you still need to buy the drive for another $200 also. Therefore, I don't see the external clik! as a serious threat to solid state memory. It may have a separate market temporarily (until solid state memory comes down in price) of transferring data from flash memory. I'm anxiously awaiting a clik! built-in camera to evaluate it's performance. It just has too many technical hurdles to overcome, such as power and motion. Hope this helps. rll

To: HardMoney who wrote (4144)	12/27/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: lkj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Frank, I have thought about Clik! as a competitor to FLASH cards. While they do have some overlapping market, I truely believe that they are not for the same market. At least not for the huge consumer market that Compact FLASH is going after. Clik! requires a drive that's much too costly for low priced consumer electronics. If Iomega can sell Clik! with a drive for 30 dollars, then Clik! would be a direct competitor to Flash card, but I doubt that will ever happen. Clik! can have a few niche market, but FLASH card could turn into a high volume product that's used in various consumer electronics. My personal feelings are that it's much more likely that FLASH card will drop its price by 70% than for Clik! to do it in the next two years. Khan