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"iomega makes good products"? have you ever heard of the click of death?
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From: "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 5:33 PM
Subject: RE: MD: MD Data 2 - why can't it be marketed as a "Zip killer"?
>
> > Well,
> > I think anyone who buys Iomega products deserves the shafting
> > they get with
> > the inferior products:
> > Here's Iomega's MD competetor:
> > http://www.iomega.com/hipzip/index.html
> > $299, with 40MB (20 minutes of 256kbps MP3) media costing $10.
> > Wow, they are
> > REAL cool! </sarcasm>
>
> I use an iomega 2 gig external jaz drive and it works great. Iomega makes
> good products. You can't expect them to come out with an mp3 player at
> prices much lower than what market forces dictate. If they did that,
people
> might think it's cheap stuff. Although I agree that the hipzip is for
> suckers.
>
> This is the same reason that Sony is selling that MD-video thing for
$2500,
> when most *digital* video cameras cost so much less. I don't expect
data-MD
> to be pushed heavily for at least a couple of years. That camera is pretty
> much a public prototype for now. Memory stick is sony's current strategy.
> It's at the core of their whole cross-product compatible
> computer/audio/still video thing.
>
> Maybe as firewire and consumer-level digital video grows on the PC front,
> this kind of MD-video thing will catch on more. But still, 20 minutes is
not
> much recording time.
>
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