XSI Petition: OT 2005-05-31 - By Gene Crucean
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Hahahahah
That reminds me, I bought a 3 button mouse for my art director but HE
refuses to use it.
On 5/31/05, Brad Friedman <xsibrad@(protected)> wrote:
> This reminds me of a silly thing that happened in the NYU computer labs.
> Not the ones for our department, which are specialized for 3d and
> compositing, but the general computer labs for the university.
>
> They decided to buy full licenses of Maya Unlimited for all the macs in
> their "multi media" lab. Then, they refused to buy three button mice for
> the computers on the principal that they were macs, and they didn't want to
> confuse the students :)
>
> -brad
>
> 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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