RIM ends the game with Zip
11 November 2012 by Steve Blum
Android, ctia, government IT, mobile, mobile broadband, public sector, rim
Android, ctia, government IT, mobile, mobile broadband, public sector, rim
Remember the Iomega Zip drive? Back when laptops had 80 meg hard drives and a gig was just a dream, the 100 MB Zip super floppy was hot. But Iomega couldn’t push it beyond 750 MB.
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I retired mine in 1997, and Iomega gradually moved it to the back of their catalog. Slowly. Even in the 2005 time frame, they still had Zip customers. Government agencies, mostly. Isolated from competitive pressures and soaked in a culture that often enshrines blame and ignores achievement, public sector IT life cycles are glacial.