Nano vs. the Flip: Who wins?

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Talking to Flip owners, you sense a bit of defensiveness about the new Nano. It reminds me of a political discussion where you’re talking to someone who just saw their candidate lose, despite being smarter, with better positions and shinier teeth. In a sense I can’t blame them, since — as shown by Liz and Chris over at NewTeeVee — the Flip actually is a better video camera than the Nano.

But as we know, being better doesn’t matter. The new Nano will sell by the truckload, and in the process push pocket video to the masses. As for the Flip, it may not sell as many video cameras as Apple will with its Nano in the coming year, but its certainly not going to get crushed as many predict. What will happen instead — as I write in my analysis over at GigaOM Pro (subscription required) — is Cisco will actually sell more of these devices because of the Nano, as awareness of pocket video goes up.

What are your thoughts?  Will the Nano crush the Flip, or grow the market as I predict?

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