Cisco is killing the Flip Camera. In its day (ie., last year) it was the greatest advance even in digital video - a video camera that uploaded to your computer without a complicated video import process. "Flip had 22.5 percent portable video market share in 2010, as measured in units, down from 23.9 percent a year earlier." And the cameras were incredibly cheap compared to their digital video predecessors. It's actually a bit hard to believe Cisco is shutting down the line. "Still, why should Cisco just give up? Why not sell as Baker suggested? Or, better -- take the Flip technology mobile, starting with a Flip video conference solution for smartphones and future stand-alone video cameras." Cisco, I guess, prefers its big government contracts instead of producing quality produces at affordable prices for consumer markets. Kodak, meanwhile, produces a fine videocamera that will make an admirable replacement for my Flip. See also Tom Hoffman, who notes the irony of the whole "run schools like a business" mantra after watching Cisco blow through $590 million with nothing to show for it. "School districts wouldn't compete with charters, they'd buy them and run them into the ground."
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