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To: Cogito who wrote (7363)	2/16/1999 7:38:00 PM
From: Ken Pomaranski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

C'mon Allen! Rocky has had some very good points today. Let me comment: CLIK! Why would a manufacture EAT the cost of the CLIK! drive for no apparent benefit? A Flash interface costs pennies. You can make the arguement that: Sure, the customer will be willing to antie up a $100 bucks for this device, but you must ask yourself: what does the Camera vendor get out of it? That is the key question. The other 99% of customers will buy a competitor's camera for $100 cheaper instead! Again, the camera vendor gets NOTHING out of including the device. Only Iomega gets something... What a great proposal! ZIP SALES Iomega used to be number 1 of ALL DEVICES. Now it is eighth. So, the fad is fading.... But, the fact remains: Who cares if they are 1st or eighth.. They still can't make money!!! I wouldn't care if Iomega was number 100 on the list, if they made $1.00 per share I would buy up all the stock I could! ZIP RELIABILITY This is where all of you get really mixed up. Physics tells you that there will always be a failure rate associated with the shear complexity of a device. This is normal. To have a systemic problem like the 'CLIK OF DEATH' is NOT normal, and IS a real problem... kp