Re: Shake end of life?

> I expect that it was based on experience.  Apple has a history of
> abandoning professional customers, and abandoning their products in
> general.  They seem to be in a race with themselves to
> invalidate/degrade their existing products so that the customers can
> order upgrades or complete replacements.  Within days of introducing a
> new version of OS X, Apple pulls all support files for the previous
> version.
>
> Bob

Ahh, ok, wouldn't know as much about the developer side (I just
script).  Every developer from Alias to Autodesk and Adobe all do a
bug releases but often times major ones won't be fixed till the next
release of the package a year later.  In the past this was normal
because we all bought yearly service contracts anyways.  Maybe it's a
shame that I and many others have become used to this.  I don't know.
I can see from these guys POV though.  The software is 1/10th what it
cost 10 years ago, so it can be hard to demand the same type of
service as before.  We paid 10k for Shake and 60k for maya, not even 5
years ago and now it is $500 for Shake and $2000 for Maya.

 So far though, since they bought Shake, they have done a decent job
on it.  There are outstanding issues with the software that we have
all been rattling the cages about since before Apple bought them.
Which sounded like just problems with the foundation of the software
which is why I believe they are rewriting it in the first place.

-deke

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