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To: Naggrachi who wrote (8216)	3/12/1999 10:20:00 PM
From: s. bateh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

last post for a while and then i am gone promise......not sure if the market is saturated.....really doubt it, slow down...maybe...but this price cut is just what it take for resellers to jump on it and move a lot of product. With the increase in the margins on the usb, zip250, clik, jaz2..we still should be ok. Keep in mind that i suspected that we would see a slow down in the zip100 parallel retail, but would make it up in the usb and zip250....i would not be upset at all if we see the move and we will from the normal parallel to usb and zip250...dealer cost between the two is not a hell of a lot...and i think the overall numbers will grow....but does it really matter if we sell 1.2 mil a month of the zip 100 or 800,000 of the usb/zip250 with much greater margins and then the zip250 disks....maybe....sure we want to continue to grow the base, but at this point if we are at 30mil by end of year or 32mil...we are moving a lot of new high margin product with the zip250, usb. clik, jaz2 etc.....not sure....take care

To: Naggrachi who wrote (8216)	3/13/1999 3:07:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

>>Furthermore, were still at the 22 million mark, is the market for this product saturated or what?<< Zead - Still at 22 million? This announcement marks the first time that the 22 million number has been mentioned. Last milestone mention, as of February 17, was 21 million. Remember, the company is not announcing the million unit milestones as they occur anymore. They are simply putting the latest numbers into press releases that are about other things. Thus, we don't know how long ago the 22 million number was passed. BTW, when I was checking on the number from that 2/17 press release, I saw something I hadn't noticed before. It says that "Recently, Iomega shipped the one millionth Zip® Built-In™ drive to both Dell and Apple Computer." While that sentence is rather odd, grammatically, I take it to mean that both Apple and Dell have bought more than one million internal Zip drives to be built in to their computers. Now, the last numbers I have seen for sales of Superdisk drives put them at about three and a half million. That's total sales in the history of the product. Just two of Iomega's OEM customers have bought over two million drives between them. Once again, I think that demonstrates just who is killing who in the OEM battle. - Allen