Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:49:36 09/05/00
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On September 05, 2000 at 17:31:01, Chessfun wrote: >On September 05, 2000 at 17:23:08, Uri Blass wrote: >>>>If the idea is very good the tester can get more money because _X_ will get more >>>>money. >>> >>>More money for _X_ has little to do with the idea. It has to do with sales and >>>marketing and supply and demand in the marketplace. >> >>Do you say that being number 1 in the ssdf list instead of number 2 or number 3 >>has nothing to do with sales? > > >Did you say that the idea took the program to No 1?. > >But seriously ask Chessmaster, they were not No 1 and had/have the best selling >programs. OK they were No 1 at one point with CM6K but I doubt seriously whether >that made an impact on their total volume. I agree that chessmaster is a different case but I believe that if you do not include Chessmaster then Fritz is the most popular program because it is number 1 most of the time. I believe that if the other factors are the same then being number 1 is important. >It is important to be No 1 if that is to be used within your marketing >strategy, yet in my opinion having a program at No 2 will not cause a loss >of that many sales. I believe that the main reason for the fact that Fritz is more popular than other chessbase engines is the fact that Fritz is number 1. I guess that it is more popular than other programs like Shredder because of this reason. The people that buy the SSDF list leader own typically >like most of us many more than one program. I do not know. The people in this forum do not represent most of the buyers. I think that I am going to buy number 1 when I buy new programs(probably when the final of the correspondence chess of Israel begins next year). I am not sure if I am going to buy number 2 even in case that I am going to buy more than one program. Uri
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