Autodesk recently acquired Alias(developer of Maya)
30% of Maya's North American sales are for Mac OS X licenses.
20% of Maya's global sales are for Mac OS X licenses.
Hope fully they are seeing the sales figures and realising how much pent up demand there is for high end 3D and CAD software for the Mac.
With the acquisition of Alias, Autodesk has also picked up many experienced programmers who could certainly help in porting AutoCad back to the Mac.
Don't expect Apple iCad any time soon.
It would be a wonderful time for Apple to acquire one of the top CAD companies and follow the route blazed by their Shake, Logic and Final Cut products, in that by securing the highest-end products used by the people who actually create, and democratizing those products, they could enlist additional current and future Apple professionals and really sway the investments of larger IT departments to Apple's benefit. I'm not sure if Autodesk is the biggest of the big (or the best of the best, for that matter).
Additionally, Apple could really start to get ahead of the curve on custom fabrication. This manufacturing trend may lead, one day, to nano-fabs on everyone's desktop that would be capable of "printing" replacement parts and consumer products. This is really happening now, and it seems like the Apple Thing To Do?.
Yea but given Apple and Sun seem to be on more than just casual speaking terms and the fact that Apple (at the time of the sale) still have BILLIONS++ in the bank you'd think Apple could have or would have wanted to make a bid of it's own for those patents. Would an offer of 75 or 100M killed Stevie Boy?
The article doesn't begin to give a good idea of just who belongs to this group. It is a good crosssection of the telecommunications, and computer industries.
Yea but given Apple and Sun seem to be on more than just casual speaking terms and the fact that Apple (at the time of the sale) still have BILLIONS++ in the bank you'd think Apple could have or would have wanted to make a bid of it's own for those patents. Would an offer of 75 or 100M killed Stevie Boy?
Dave
What does Sun have to do with the fact that SGI sold some of the rights to OpenGL code to MS?
As to Apple, they would have had to want to buy it. Apple is notoriously cheap. They spend a very few tens of millions for whole companies. They invested $100 million in LG's LCD panel manufacturing, but that's different.
It would be a wonderful time for Apple to acquire one of the top CAD companies and follow the route blazed by their Shake, Logic and Final Cut products, in that by securing the highest-end products used by the people who actually create, and democratizing those products, they could enlist additional current and future Apple professionals and really sway the investments of larger IT departments to Apple's benefit. I'm not sure if Autodesk is the biggest of the big (or the best of the best, for that matter).
Additionally, Apple could really start to get ahead of the curve on custom fabrication. This manufacturing trend may lead, one day, to nano-fabs on everyone's desktop that would be capable of "printing" replacement parts and consumer products. This is really happening now, and it seems like the Apple Thing To Do?.
Which company would you suggest/
Archicad is the only real competitor in the high end space. They are more popular in Europe than here. That's the only company that would make sense.
But if Apple does buy them, or any realistic competitor to AutoCad, what would happen to Maya and the other programs?
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Originally posted by Johnny Mozzarella
I'm still pissed at SGI for selling the bulk of it's OpenGL patents to Microsoft for a measly 62 million. What were they thinking.
They desperately needed the money?
Originally posted by Johnny Mozzarella
Autodesk recently acquired Alias(developer of Maya)
30% of Maya's North American sales are for Mac OS X licenses.
20% of Maya's global sales are for Mac OS X licenses.
Hope fully they are seeing the sales figures and realising how much pent up demand there is for high end 3D and CAD software for the Mac.
With the acquisition of Alias, Autodesk has also picked up many experienced programmers who could certainly help in porting AutoCad back to the Mac.
Don't expect Apple iCad any time soon.
It would be a wonderful time for Apple to acquire one of the top CAD companies and follow the route blazed by their Shake, Logic and Final Cut products, in that by securing the highest-end products used by the people who actually create, and democratizing those products, they could enlist additional current and future Apple professionals and really sway the investments of larger IT departments to Apple's benefit. I'm not sure if Autodesk is the biggest of the big (or the best of the best, for that matter).
Additionally, Apple could really start to get ahead of the curve on custom fabrication. This manufacturing trend may lead, one day, to nano-fabs on everyone's desktop that would be capable of "printing" replacement parts and consumer products. This is really happening now, and it seems like the Apple Thing To Do?.
Originally posted by melgross
They desperately needed the money?
Yea but given Apple and Sun seem to be on more than just casual speaking terms and the fact that Apple (at the time of the sale) still have BILLIONS++ in the bank you'd think Apple could have or would have wanted to make a bid of it's own for those patents. Would an offer of 75 or 100M killed Stevie Boy?
Dave
Originally posted by melgross
The article doesn't begin to give a good idea of just who belongs to this group. It is a good crosssection of the telecommunications, and computer industries.
Guess who ISN'T a member?
Microsoft :P
Yea but given Apple and Sun seem to be on more than just casual speaking terms and the fact that Apple (at the time of the sale) still have BILLIONS++ in the bank you'd think Apple could have or would have wanted to make a bid of it's own for those patents. Would an offer of 75 or 100M killed Stevie Boy?
Dave
What does Sun have to do with the fact that SGI sold some of the rights to OpenGL code to MS?
As to Apple, they would have had to want to buy it. Apple is notoriously cheap. They spend a very few tens of millions for whole companies. They invested $100 million in LG's LCD panel manufacturing, but that's different.
It would be a wonderful time for Apple to acquire one of the top CAD companies and follow the route blazed by their Shake, Logic and Final Cut products, in that by securing the highest-end products used by the people who actually create, and democratizing those products, they could enlist additional current and future Apple professionals and really sway the investments of larger IT departments to Apple's benefit. I'm not sure if Autodesk is the biggest of the big (or the best of the best, for that matter).
Additionally, Apple could really start to get ahead of the curve on custom fabrication. This manufacturing trend may lead, one day, to nano-fabs on everyone's desktop that would be capable of "printing" replacement parts and consumer products. This is really happening now, and it seems like the Apple Thing To Do?.
Which company would you suggest/
Archicad is the only real competitor in the high end space. They are more popular in Europe than here. That's the only company that would make sense.
But if Apple does buy them, or any realistic competitor to AutoCad, what would happen to Maya and the other programs?