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Hmm -
it's a thought! I know Alias did pretty well in educational
institutions, and they have a Mac version....
I believe I saw figures on Alias's revenue from the Mac version and they
claimed it was in the 20% range of all Maya revenue.
Of course it was the only option for pro 3D on the mac at the time, and
now there is Modo, etc.
I know that mental ray ships with a complete Mac OSX version, and in
fact some mental images folk use the Mac as the primary dev platform.
Of course it may be the case that Softimage is too tied to the windows
infrastructiure to really support new platforms.
That would be a shame. It would however be consistent with Microsoft's
business strategy.
ATR
p.s. - we need some TD and Generalist types here in sunny San Clemente
USA. Think you're hot? Need work? Can you surf? Want to learn?
forward me a web link to some work and I'll pass it along to the human
resources types. We may also be able to get visas for Europeans now.
ATR
Gene Crucean wrote:
> See, I think the biggest reason soft should look into this is because
> of the whole education possibility. Think of how big apple is within
> educational facilities and think of where and what those people using
> those macs are going to want to use after they graduate. IMO, that's
> when you would want to get xsi into the users hands... for the long
> run anyways.
>
> -gc
>
>
>
> On 5/31/05, Raffaele ThE_JacO Fragapane <jaco@(protected)> wrote:
>
>>May I be so blunt to point out the major flaw in these polls?
>>
>>They keep recurring on the list, cgtalk, xsibase, at usergroups...
>>
>>Now, please remind me what the amount of new licenses Soft would sell could
>>be if the poll was successful between people who are ALREADY for the vast
>>majority XSI users.
>>In my book it would be between 5 and 20 ;)
>>
>>If you want these polls to have any weight start evangelizing the mac
>>userbase that doesn't know XSI yet, and poll THEM for opinions.
>>Actually now that I think of it, that was done on some mainstream OS-X forum
>>some time ago, and the result of the poll were something like:
>>
>>1) Not interested, the apps we already have are more then enough for me
>>[37%]
>>2) would consider it if the price was brought down to line up with maya's
>>and C4D (it was before foundation) [10%]
>>3) Yes! I'd be all over it [3%]
>>4) what's XSI? [50%]
>>
>>This is off the top of my head, but I think they are quite close to what the
>>poll resulted into, try looking for cached forum pages on google maybe.
>>
>>I sort of like macs nowadays, and I COULD consider an Apple laptop one day
>>if more SW I need gets ported to it and if Apple stops screwing with some
>>companies, but I can't see the mac userbase to be this huge pool Soft really
>>and absolutely wants to tap.
>>
>>From my days in Avid my experience with managing a mac userbase, and
>>relationships with Apple, is that it's usually usually a serious PITA.
>>
>>P.S.
>>They do have the sexiest workstation case with the G5 and the 30"
>>cinemadisplay is gorgeous, shame the CPUs still come out as disappointing in
>>all we tested here (we have a fair deal of G5s for shake and tryied some
>>stuff on it)
>>
>>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---
>>~Raffaele Fragapane
>>~Lead "I'm sure we can make it work"
>>~Peerless Camera Company
>>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---
>>
>>
>>
>>-- --Original Message-- --
>>From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
>>kim aldis
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 8:36 AM
>>To: XSI@(protected)
>>Subject: RE: XSI Petition
>>
>>Maybe that's because everyone wants to use Xsi on OSX ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>>-- --Original Message-- --
>>>From: owner-xsi@(protected)
>>>[mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Matt Lind
>>>Sent: 30 May 2005 09:24
>>>To: xsi@(protected)
>>>Subject: RE: XSI Petition
>>>
>>
>> That being the case, common sense
>>
>>>says there's going to be even less interest (or
>>>need) to port XSI to OSX.
>>>
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