Comments on: SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive http://www.gizmosforgeeks.com/2008/04/02/sandisk-extreme-ducati-edition-usb-flash-drive/3279 Whoever Has The Most Toys Wins! Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:29:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: » SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive http://www.gizmosforgeeks.com/2008/04/02/sandisk-extreme-ducati-edition-usb-flash-drive/3279/comment-page-1#comment-1127 » SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:06:40 +0000 http://www.gizmosforgeeks.com/2008/04/02/sandisk-extreme-ducati-edition-usb-flash-drive/#comment-1127 [...] Source: Gizmos for Geeks [...] [...] Source: Gizmos for Geeks [...]

]]> By: Mr. Alex http://www.gizmosforgeeks.com/2008/04/02/sandisk-extreme-ducati-edition-usb-flash-drive/3279/comment-page-1#comment-1125 Mr. Alex Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:26:59 +0000 http://www.gizmosforgeeks.com/2008/04/02/sandisk-extreme-ducati-edition-usb-flash-drive/#comment-1125 The price of flash drives has plummetted to the point where they are now giveaway items. Any day now we'll see them being given away in cereal boxes. So now we're seeing features being added as a way to justify higher cost and profit margin--the ultra-secure "Ironkey", for example, flash drives that read biometrics, etc. The value add here is ... stylishness? So you can say to someone, "here, let me copy my powerpoint to my flashdrive...." and then hope that someone notices the Ducati name? The price of flash drives has plummetted to the point where they are now giveaway items. Any day now we’ll see them being given away in cereal boxes.

So now we’re seeing features being added as a way to justify higher cost and profit margin–the ultra-secure “Ironkey”, for example, flash drives that read biometrics, etc.

The value add here is … stylishness? So you can say to someone, “here, let me copy my powerpoint to my flashdrive….” and then hope that someone notices the Ducati name?

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