Author: allan johnson
Date: 00:28:58 10/21/01
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On October 20, 2001 at 17:53:47, Steven Schwartz wrote: >On October 20, 2001 at 15:09:34, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On October 20, 2001 at 11:34:38, Steven Schwartz wrote: >> >>>On October 20, 2001 at 08:39:57, O. Veli wrote: >>> >>>>On October 19, 2001 at 10:46:34, Steven Schwartz wrote: >>>> >>>>>Where did they get Star Sapphires? The chips to manufacture them >>>>>will not be available till late December, and product won't be >>>>>available until January? >>>>>http://www.icdchess.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?page=8/80-N13.html&item=80-N13&cart_id=2600247.17861 >>>> >>>> Is there any concrete evidence for this? Star Sapphire was supposed to come ou >>>>t in Summer 2000, then Christmas 2000, and now January 2001. Wasn't Novag >>>>renamed as Perfect Technologies? I look forward to this product, but have no >>>>hope of seeing it in my hands. >>> >>> >>>The chips were supposed to be available in early November so that >>>the product would be available for Christmas. However, we received >>>word about a week ago that the chips were delayed until late Decmeber. >>>So, January delivery looks good. However, we have learned from 23 years >>>in this business that new product is delayed more than it is on time. >>>We will know for certain that they are here when they get here. But >>>right now January is as good a guess as any. >>>Steve (ICD/Your Move Chess & Games) >> >> >> >>I don't want to sound harsh, but in my opinion this product is dead before it is >>born: you can just buy a PDA and download a good chess program for it and you >>get a better combination than the Star Sapphire. >> >>Even if the unit is cheaper than a PDA of the same speed at this time, it's just >>a matter of months before PDAs are cheaper and faster. And naturally they are >>more flexible. >> >>If this product had been released when it was first announced, something like 2 >>years ago, it would have been a winner. But 2002 is too late. I don't understand >>why investors would put money in this anymore (unless they are blind). >> >>I must certainly be missing some piece of important information about the unit. >>But what? >> Christophe > > >Having sold $10,000 and $6,000 and $2,000 and $1,000 chess computers >in pretty high numbers in the past, I can never predict what our >customers will and will not like. We have started taking pre-orders >for the computer. I will let you know in a month or two just how >successful or unsuccessful a venture it is going to be. > >I think the success of failure of the Star Sapphire and Star Diamond >will be a pretty good predictor of whether the stand-alone high end chess >computer market will ever attract a sizeable number of customers again. It >should be interesting. > >Steve (ICD/Your Move Chess & Games) Steve: I have 3 stand alone chess computers the best being the Risc 1.How much better will the Star Saphire be than the Risc1? Al
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