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Segway HT Starts Selling
Ninja Master Gara writes "The much-hyped "IT", Dean Kamen's Segway Human Transporter, started selling Monday with a no-refund deposit of $495 on the $4,950 people mover for deliveries starting March 2003 on first come first serve basis.
"The Segway Human Transporter is one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time," Jeff Bezos, chief executive and founder of Amazon.com, said in heralding the availability of the vehicles on the online retailer's site." It's also the most overhyped and overpriced toy ever, and I'm kicking myself for posting it since that just contributes to the problem.
First post? Give IT to me baby!
This is incredible!! Wow, this is almost first post!! My day is starting of so well, so it's downhill from here!!
Next time I wake up at 5:00 cause you told me too will be in 99 years......
Any relation to the ZX80?
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!
According to this link and this one The C5 was made by sinclaire research. So yes, in actual fact, both machines were made by the great Bald Boffin Sinclaire
This is karma whoring at its finest. Your two posts are a mere four minutes apart. The comment system makes you wait two minutes between posts? So, you searched for a page on how this thing works, found that page, read the explanation, and came back here to write your follow-up post all in two minutes? Doubt it. You're a sad case dude. Karma is just a stupid text string on a website that means nothing.
What guns? You live in England. Oops, I guess the cops and military have all those. Oh well, commence firing into the crowd. That's called "crowd control".
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
It wasn't even news yesterday.
* 2002-11-18 19:46:46 Segway $4,950 at Amazon - 3/2003 delivery (articles,news) (rejected)
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Segway is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Segway community when IDC confirmed that Segway market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Segway has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Segway is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Segway's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Segway faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Segway because Segway is dying. Things are looking very bad for Segway. As many of us are already aware, Segway continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Segway has steadily declined in market share. Segway is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Segway is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. Segway continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Segway from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Segway is dead.
Fact: Segway is dying
Trolling is a art,
I can understand your wish that the Segway be discussed only by people who have ridden one--that is, people who have experienced an intense Segway marketing session and bought stock in your company as a result.
I can understand your hope that posts like yours (how many of these have you posted?) will make /.ers keep quiet about Segway's problems for fear of being accused of jealous, penury, nimrodism, backward thinking--did I miss any of your arguments here?
I think you will find it was a lot easier to buy state legislators than it is to fool Slashdot. And if you don't get Slashdot types to buy your hype, you're out of luck. Aren't you?
ok, I want one too!
where'd you get yours from?
'There is a Light that never goes out.'