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To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (7411)	2/17/1999 1:59:00 PM
From: David Colvin	Respond to of 10072

Sometimes logic comes in handy! You mean like the "logic" you brilliantly built-in to your model that predicted $0.02 per share EPS for Q4 1998? Let's see....that logic was 71.4% off from the real EPS number that was $0.07. Since you were so far off the mark then, why would anyone think you are remotely correct about any of the other prognostications you spew here?

To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (7411)	2/17/1999 7:15:00 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 10072

>>>1) Sometimes logic comes in handy! This is the first test that should be applied. .... 2) Don't forget also that many of the CLIK! buyers will not then require a ZIP drive and disks on top of it!(cannibalization). .... 3) You must also look at the market. ZIP's market is ALL PCs, so it's potential can be large, CLIK! is all digital cameras. ...<<< 1) Agree with you that applying logic is good. 2) Clik! could cannibalize Zip sales - and so? Iomega makes the bucks either way. 3) I think PDA use for Clik! will outstrip camera use. PDA makers are busy as beavers with new models right now.

To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (7411)	2/17/1999 8:30:00 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 10072

Ken - I wasn't knocking logic. It shouldn't be the first test, though. In most situations, hard data tells you more than logic can. But speaking of ludicrous statements, your statements about 200 dollar Clik! drives in 20 dollar game boys and 100 dollar phones are nonsense. Clik! doesn't have to be included in 20 dollar or even 200 dollar devices to make it a success. What's the market for 1000 dollar cameras? I don't know, but obviously the camera makers think people will pay six to nine hundred bucks for good ones, or they wouldn't be making so many of them. BTW, I just saw the Agfa 1680/Clik! bundle featured on Buycomp.com for 725 bucks. Of course I realize that my little anecdote from Fry's doesn't prove that Clik! will be a smash hit. It was just meant as an interesting tidbit, indicating that in a retail setting, the salesperson could see the value of Clik!, and furthermore, communicated it to me, the customer. - Allen