[i]"Actually the story goes something like this…
Pixologic announces ZB3.5 at Siggraph 2008, then releases a few technology preview videos on their website early in 2009. After many, many months of total silence, Pixologic previews ZB4 at Siggraph 2009 and announces availability early in 2010. Of course the Mac version won’t be available until a few months after the official - ‘Windows’ - ZB4 release, but any Mac user purchasing ZB2 at the special upgrade price will get a free license transfer to ‘ZB4 for Mac’ when it’s released. Gee… I think I’ve read this somewhere before… And the irony of the situation is that every single Mac user posting in this forum will be the FIRST IN LINE to hand over their money. Does that make Mac users look like morons or what!
Stop acting like Mac using, placard waving activists attempting to save some purple-pnsed, 9 legged mongolian tree frog, and wake up to the realities of the modern corporate world. 2k Mac users vs maybe 20k pro content developers collectively holding 50k ZB licenses. Add to that maybe another 30k non-pro ZB 3.x licensees and you suddenly have 80k ZB 3.x users willing to pay $300 each for an upgrade to ZB 4… that’s $24M. So ask yourself… if you were in the business of software development where would your priorities be?
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Originally Posted by Derek Frenzo
You love coming in here and taunting us, as if our situation wasn’t bad enough already. If that’s what floats your boat, so be it.
You get taunted only because most Mac users posting on this forum are well… just so ‘anal retentive’. …‘I’LL NEVER USE WINDOWS ON MY MAC’ but I’m willing to waste my time whinging and whining in this forum for the next 30 years while ‘Windows’ users are busily creating amazing art with their copy of ZB v12… Are Mac users really so moronic that they don’t realise how absolutely stupid their statements are.
I realise most encumbant - bet most Mac users have to look up that word - Mac users would be too dumb to understand the complexities, but spend some of your obviously plentiful time - well you really don’t have any apps to run on your Macs anyway - over at the developer forums at Apple, and just maybe - but I doubt it - you’ll come to understand that much of what you are so ready to blame Pixologic for, is really of Apple’s making. The ‘good ol’ days - well in your opinions’ anyway - of Mac have gone. Mac hardware is now a multi OS, multi developer platform targeted by Apple not only as a ‘MacOS’ platform, but also ‘Linux’, ‘Unix’, and - dare I say it - ‘Windows’. If you want to keep repeating to yourself …‘I’LL NEVER USE WINDOWS ON MY MAC’… then so be it, but no one’s listening. Not Pixologic and especially not Apple."[/i]
I keep thinking that this thread exists simply because the mac community are waiting avidly for the next release of an osx-native zbrush. There’s bound to be some release of frustration from time to time, and that needs a little tolerance, but I feel the above post above is really unnecessary and offensive. Macs and PC’s are just tools and both are equally capable ones. Each person simply has their preference. :
