@ Peter... touché ;^) On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:54 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Eric, quite on the contrary, AD’s marketing is spot on: > It’s Maya. > For rent. > At a premium price. > Of course it’s for douchebags! > > Don’t forget, at AD, they are living so far in the future that these are > normal prices for a cup of coffee or daily rates – I think they call that > inflation. > Or was it inflated? > > > *From:* Eric Turman <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 14, 2015 4:39 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya! > > It's not you, Chris. It is very expensive for software that is only > rent-able--and yes, subscribing for a year is still effectively renting. I > brew my own coffee and pay less than 25 cents per cup--not $5.77 (the > adjusted price of a 5 day work week rather than 4.17 for working 7 days a > week.) The whole thing comes off as sleazy car salesman, but it is > unfortunately what I would expect from AD. > > I would, however, not be surprised if we see someone from AD jumping onto > this thread explaining this latest 'benevolent' ploy and how this is > better for all of us kind of horsepucky. > > <rant> > One of the biggest parts of Autodesk and Adobe CC is that for production, > generally, we don't care about the having the cutting edge until it has > been proven stable. So while having access to beta to know what is coming > down the pike and to test how the new version is going to break tools, the > truth of the day to day is that we need a stable version of the software to > get our work done quickly and with the fewest problems. AD marketing is so > clueless to paint us in the light that we are all a bunch of hipster > douche-bags pushing a button to advance to the next script and letting the > computer work for a few hours while we go off in between mountain-biking > and surfing like a glorified George Jetson. > </rant> > -- -=T=-
