On 10/22/2016 6:03 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > I am also just as certain that Steinberg's front office finally said to > the development team (probably over some protests from them but I can't > state that as fact) that they needed to have a product on the market by > a specific date to try to recoup some of the major investment that > Steinberg had made in hiring them and giving them a few years (has it > been 2 or 3?) of "free play time" without the necessity of earning their > keep.
Undoubtedly it was the case that Stienberg drew the proverbial line in the sand. After all, this Dorico project is taking resources away from the Cubase/Nuendo development team. Regarding cash flow, this can cut both ways. A rough, back-of-the-envelope calculation tells me they need more than 10,000 licenses per year just to cover their ongoing costs, and that wouldn't begin to cover the 4 years of development costs. I doubt they have brought in anything like that with the initial wave, and they may hit a wall very quickly as people conclude this is very far from being a production tool. I really hope this product succeeds because I do think the world needs what they are developing, but there is a possibility that Steinberg/Yamaha will look at these early results and conclude there is no profit in this business case. This is the kind of product I would normally buy in the early stages. However, I concluded there were far too many things missing for me to even remotely consider it for productive use. All I could really do with the first release is get a little experience with the learning curve. But I learn best when I am working toward a production goal, which is not possible with this product. I am not sure you can even call it a "product" at this point. it is more of a proof of concept. We are probably another year away from it being marginally adequate for some production use. In this case, I am going to wait until it is a lot closer to prime time. I bet there will still be decent crossgrade prices at that time -- because they need to sell 10,000 ( probably a lot more) per year. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
