Author: David Mitchell
Date: 02:29:35 09/04/05
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On September 04, 2005 at 02:33:04, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 04, 2005 at 01:32:23, David Mitchell wrote: > >>On September 03, 2005 at 07:20:21, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On September 03, 2005 at 06:45:14, David Mitchell wrote: >>> >>><snipped> >>>>Money isn't the issue, I believe, in Zappa competing or not competing in a >>>>tournament, right now. Time is. >>> >>>Sending Zappa to Leo is only few minutes so certainly time is not the problem >>>here. >> >>But Zappa isn't finished, so any testing would be bogus, and suspect if any >>changes were made after Leo started testing. > >I still do not see the problem. >If released zappa will be better than the tested version then nobody will >complain about it. > >Fruit also may be released as commercial program in the future but it does not >prevent fabien to ask Leo to test private version. > >Uri As WCCC champion (and by a large margin), Zappa has to be released NOW - ASAP, for commercial marketing advantages. The "pump" in marketing, is already primed. Leo can not help Zappa whatsoever. Quite the opposite, he would be a possible risk and liability for Zappa's commercial release and success. AC will NOT want to have Leo review Zappa for that reason. Clear as day. Fruit is in a different situation. Fruit did well but not THAT well. Fabien may want to work on his GUI, book, and engine between now and Padderborn (or whatever tournament he wants to launch Fruit from, and THEN release Fruit, after a successful tournment, there. Releasing immediately after Zappa, when Zappa was the WCCC champ (and Fruit did not come in even 2nd), may not be the right timing for Fruit. I would think it would not be, but you have to know the whole marketing scheme for Fruit, and obviously I don't know it. Leo would be a mixed bag for Fruit Could be helpful, or not. For Zappa, it is different, and Leo and his testing is only a liability for Zappa. It's ALL about marketing, and the right timing for that marketing; not about CC fans and our rabid desires. <grin> Dave
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