#Why I won't upgrade
27-Oct-94 21:03:26
Sb: #131661-#Why I won't upgrade
Fm: krazy images 72724,3111
To: Mike Kelley 71302,73
Maybe you haven't understood my points. Right now, people that have 3DS is
because:
1.They make a living from it.
2.They have enough money to spend the money on 3DS plus the hardware, to run
3DS as a hobby.
Well, of them, some have Windoze, some NT, some both, some OS/2, some Unix,
some has Macs, some all of them. The ones with Windoze and NT are part of the
trizillion seats. But that doesn't convert the rest of the installed based of
Windoze users in potential users of 3DS. Not at all. The same way you have
three trizillions of DOS seats, and that doesn't give you a trizillion of 3DS
copies sold. Do you get the equation? My "None of those computers is going to
have a $4,000 3D program installed in their HDs" was talking about the largest
chunk of Windoze users. And you know what are these users doing with windoze?
yes! You win your trip to bahamas! Sincerely, the closest thing to graphics
this people use is PowerPoint and maybe CorelDRAW and Pagemaker for the usual
horrible newsletter.
Now, if marketing people at Adesk are krazy and they are taking Windoze
installed base as a point for the port of 3DS to NT, I will never buy again an
Adesk product (just kidding 🙂 But I am sure that they are don't doing that. We
are not talking here about Animator Pro, which could be certainly targeted at a
business audience. This game is called 3D, and I still have to see someone
using 3DS for making 3D animated charts <g>
Besides, if you look to the market numbers searching for potential 3DS buyers
depending on installed base of computers dedicated to graphics (and supposing
that these will be interested in jump to the 3D production arena -animation,
imaging, illustration…), the only platform that you can think about has a
multicolored apple as her logo.
However, I am sure that the NT port, if any, will be done based on portability
and diversity of platform to satisfy the needs of different market segments and
cut the development costs.
I will be glad to hear if any Adesk or Yost person could correct me in this
one.
ana /krazy images