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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (6707)	1/26/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: rll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

"Wow, de ja vu all over again. I bet we could save everybody a lot of time and effort just by playing the exchanges on this topic on the Real Iomega thread and the SanDisk thread from about a year and a half ago. Nothing has changed at all, except the Iomega product is now a reality. " Cameron, I have thought about your post and I think the problem is that the product itself has changed. 1. I remember first hearing about the n-hand device. It was 20MB as you say, but it was never touted as an external device. It would be built-in to cameras and therefore the true cost difference to flash memory was only the disk's price and not the drive too. 2. The n-hand was rumored (or even discussed in a conference call - I'd have to get my notes out) to have a caddy for the ever popular zip drive. I thought this would make n-hand very valuable since I envisioned many computers having zip drives built-in. 3. Somewhere along the line, IOM chose (or had no other choice) to start out with an external drive. This was a big mistake in my opinion for the reasons I've stated in previous posts. 4. Finally, if IOM would have stayed with their original plan, I think they'd be in a much better competitive position right now. (Only an internal drive with a zip caddy to transfer data from portable devices with the built-in drive). As it is now, the clik! and zip sort of overlap and it's not too clear what advantage the clik! has, if any. rll P.S. Let's say that a digicam with clik! built-in was available today. How would you transfer the data to your pc? Do you still need to buy an external clik! drive? (Without that zip caddy, it will require some type of USB or serial port hookup to your camera)