Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:27:22 09/05/98
I wonder what conclusion can be drawn from the fact that only 14% of people that answered the question would purchase Crafty, if commercially available in CD with the complete Book stuff, etc. Too pricy at 100 theoretical bucks? The percentage would have been better if Steven asked the same question but with a 50 dollars mark? Refusal to pay for something that has been given since ever? Not enough valued as a program to be worthy of some expenses? A signal -I don't believe it- of saturation of the market? The feeling that "I already have Crafty and the new commercial version would be almost the same thing"? I wonder all this as much if we could answer it we could, at the same time, begin to discover the hidden and misterious secrets of the chess professiional market. What make a guy with already 30 programs to steal some dollars from his maybe narrow budget and ask for a new one? Which are the factors that makes of a program almost an irresistible temptation and that make of another, maybe better, a total failure? And finally, whatever the reasons, are the same we consciously would answer if asked about it in a poll? Yes: this is one of the most weird markets I have never known. Fernando
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