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That's my dream anyway :P

I don't personally think this will happen but I have been wrong before. ]]>Jan 12th 2008 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/12/hitachi-toshiba-and-fujitsu-joining-hands-for-hard-drive-spino/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/12/hitachi-toshiba-and-fujitsu-joining-hands-for-hard-drive-spino/Jan 12th 2008 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/12/hitachi-toshiba-and-fujitsu-joining-hands-for-hard-drive-spino/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/12/hitachi-toshiba-and-fujitsu-joining-hands-for-hard-drive-spino/
Has to be a good thing all round though. Each companies R&D goes in separate directions and this should bring together the best of their research into one drive.]]>Jan 12th 2008 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/12/hitachi-toshiba-and-fujitsu-joining-hands-for-hard-drive-spino/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/12/hitachi-toshiba-and-fujitsu-joining-hands-for-hard-drive-spino/Jan 12th 2008 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/12/hitachi-toshiba-and-fujitsu-joining-hands-for-hard-drive-spino/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/12/hitachi-toshiba-and-fujitsu-joining-hands-for-hard-drive-spino/
There may or may not be sound economic theory behind it -- Economics is all about psychology, so if that's what the stockholders, employees, and customers expect of the companies involved, and they all feel like they benefit from it, it's appropriate. Remember that (in general) corporate competition is quite a vulgar topic in Japanese society, but corporate and social cooperation are virtues. Consumers don't care as much about lower prices through competition as they care about fairness and job security. If you think about your company as a family, you'll get some of this -- you wouldn't want to start a feud and go to war with another family if peaceful coexistence or even cooperation was an option.

On some other level, though, you've got tons of fifty- and sixty-something managers approaching retirement age, who are seeing their corporate culture eroded by a combination of young people who aren't "growing up" and donning the mantle of traditional Japanese adulthood, and a hybridization with Western business practices. This could simply be a last-ditch effort by the old guard to commit their organizations to keep with the old ways after they're gone.]]>Jan 12th 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/12/hitachi-toshiba-and-fujitsu-joining-hands-for-hard-drive-spino/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/12/hitachi-toshiba-and-fujitsu-joining-hands-for-hard-drive-spino/
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Segate, Wester Digital, Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi, Fujitsu competing = $100 500gb drives. How long do you think it will take until we have $100 1TB drives? (Answer: Never, if there isn't competition)]]>Jan 12th 2008 3:31PM