Re: Viewpoint (VET) for OSX? 2004-01-27 - By pmiinalainen
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would be nice to see where they gather such statistics. when you
pull statistics of from your regular web server, they suggest
somewhat different figures...
petteri
--- In Carrara@(protected), Andrew Turner <turner410@(protected)> wrote:
> "Viewpoint Corporation's Media Palyer Penetration Surpasses That
of Windows
> Media Player 9, Quicktime, Flash 7 and Realplayer, A New Study
Suggests"
>
> Palyer. That's funny.
>
> You're right, if they're trying to kill themselves off they're
doing a good
> job. I'm gonna give them a call today, as the investor that I am,
and let
> them have it.
>
> Andrew
>
> From: nospam2 <nospam2@(protected)>
> Reply-To: Carrara@(protected)
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:49:31 +0100
> To: Andrew Turner <Carrara@(protected)>
> Subject: Re: [Carrara] Viewpoint (VET) for OSX?
>
>
> Hello Andrew,
>
> Don't know about the macOS thing.
>
> However, have you seen Viewpoint new licensing scheme ?
> It is killing me also.
>
> The entry step for developers is ... $995 a year (why not $999 ?
Go wonder)
> !
>
> This is absolutely crazy.
> I must jump out of the wagon as certainly most of people on this
list will,
> I suppose.
>
> If Viewpoint want to kill their technology, they obviously chose
the best
> way ...
>
> They are taking just the opposite way than the one that proved
successfull
> for imposing de facto standards (Adobe with pdf, Macromedia with
Flash) :
> low entry step provoking widespread adoption ...
>
> Today Viewpoint annouced on a press release that the plug-ins is
available
> on more than 60 % of internet users brwosers.
> So what ? There is no content to see anywhere, and it is not to
change
> tomorrow with such a licensing scheme !
>
>
> Tuesday, January 27, 2004, 2:36:36 PM, you wrote:
>
> AT> Viewpoint is killing me!
>
> AT> Remember when they just made really good 3d models?
>
> AT> Then, Metacreations was broken up, and Viewpoint took over
some of their
> AT> assets? I forget what they were... oh yes, Metacreations bought
> Viewpoint
> AT> and sold EVERYTHING except 3d web tech.
>
> AT> Anyway, you go to their site now, and, it's like, nothing
going on
> AT> practically. Unfortunately we had stock in Metacreations when
they still
> AT> owned everything, and now it's worth what they still hold of
> AT> Metacreations... almost nothing! That's a bit of an
exaggeration of
> course.
> AT> (Kai was quite the innovator, as well as Sree Kotay, Phil
Clevenger and
> Eric
> AT> Wenger... ah, the good old days!!).
>
> AT> Ok, enough of my rant -
>
> AT> I guess the Viewpoint extension for Carrara only works on Mac
up to
> OS9.x?
>
> AT> Anyone?
>
> AT> I looked on the Viewpoint site and didn't find anything.. I'll
go back
> just
> AT> in case.
>
> AT> Thanks,
> AT> Andrew
>
>
>
>
>
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