silverblade33 opened this issue on Feb 14, 2008 ยท 30 posts
thundering1 posted Sun, 17 February 2008 at 7:25 AM
"Mac users are inherently pissed"
I'm a former Mac user, and even I can't stand to hear it anymore - "It's not available for Mac - it's not available for Mac!" (ie - the sky is falling the sky is falling!!)
(holds up mirror) Um... Shake...? I was saving up the $5-grand and then Apple bought it from Nothing Real and IMMEDIATELY got rid of the Windows version - but apparently everything about that is just fine because it's available for Mac users...
It was available for Windows, Linux, and Mac - Windows was dropped, the Mac price dropped to $3-grand, and the Linux version upped to $7-grand - which made it cheaper to buy the Mac version AND a brand new workstation rather than get the Linux version. Apple reduced an amazing industry-standard compositing tool down to a sales tactic for their computer hardware - and cut off their largest source of revenue in the process... And now Shake is defunct because they can't afford to develop it... Gee I wonder why...?
Yes, I have a serious grudge against Apple - not the Mac itself as a tool which is wonderful, but Apple the company and their tactics.