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Maya for Mac OS X
drc writes "I http://www.macnn.com/feature.php?id=344noticed on MacNN that 'Maya 4.5 for Mac OS X was announced this morning when Steve Jobs revealed that the Maya update would offer feature parity in OS X when compared to other platforms. Jobs also mentioned that Alias|Wavefront has seen the Mac OS X version of Maya grow to 25% of their total market. I'm suprised that the Mac OS X version has such a market share in such a short period of time."
I don't know anybody who uses maya on mac.
I do think it will be a viable alternative some day, from what I understand, it is a bit slower still than it is on PCs.
Most Maya users I know are on SGIs or PCs (Linux or Windows).
-Tim
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Afghanistan base
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I remember Maya (on SGI) utilizing all three mouse buttons very extensively. How is the Mac version coping with the single button limitation?
More importantly, why doesn't Apple have a three button scrolling mouse yet? After 18 years of insisting that users *like* having their hands tied behind their back, isn't it time to admit they're just being stubborn? C'mon, Steve, we won't think any less of you.
In any case, good to see the Mac making headway in the graphics market it once dominated. Maybe it will reign again.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
I'm suprised that the Mac OS X version has such a market share in such a short period of time."
A killer app comes out for a killer OS running on just about the sweetest hardware most people are willing to pay for.
What this really points out is how we've come to expect that mediocity sells and state-of-the-art often goes unnoticed. e.g., pop quiz: Palm or Danger?
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Jobs also mentioned that Alias|Wavefront has seen the Mac OS X version of Maya grow to 25% of their total market. I'm suprised that the Mac OS X version has such a market share in such a short period of time."
Well, duh... either he's lying, or everybody who's not being forced to upgrade by a new OS isn't upgrading. Windows guys can keep using their old versions, Mac guys really can't. And don't say Classic. It's not funny anymore.
I know, I know, I love Stevo too. But really, he's the top dog at an aggressive multinational. He's probably lying. We've all caught him "misrepresenting" the truth hundreds of times, and this is probably one of them - it's his job to hype OS X in any way he can. Look at the way he and his lawyers treat people, he's not a nice guy when he's not selling something. Nicer than Billg and monkeyboy, but they've probably never fired somebody for using cheap cologne and "stinking" up the office....
But we'll forgive him for this lie, just like we forgave him for screwing us with .Mac yesterday, and just like we'll forgive him for putting backdoors in Aqua tomorrow. We've gotta stop being Fanboys; blind faith and adoration is more harmful than sheer hatred. We've got to use our clout as customers to force positive change in Apple. If Steve doesn't hear any complaints about how he does business, he'll assume he's doing everything right. And he's not. Or am I the only one who can admit Apple's not perfect?
MokMok
In the graphics market "apple once dominated" we are all using Wacom tablets. Photoshop (and most other graphics programs) without a pressure sensitive tablet is almost unusable (If you've gotten used to it without a tablet you just don't realise you're missing some basic functionality).
On the occasions we use a mouse the one that comes with the tablet has two buttons & a scroll wheel.
As for "maybe it will reign again" I think it's still dominating that market. Granted the it's not been strong in 3D. But in just about every other creative niche it either dominates (photography, art, design, advertising, pre-press) or has a very respectable presence (film/video, music and increasingly 3D)
In addition to being smarter, I've found that in my experience, my mac using friends are far more likely to actually pay for software than my windows using friends. This may account for the sudden numbers A\W is seeing, and why Adobe and Macromedia continue to see the mac market as being more important that its market share would indicate, despite the fact that just about everybody you know probably has a copy of Photoshop on their desktop somehow. Not a troll, just a thought. :)
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Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
Maya is for modelling and such, all that sort of 3D graphics stuff. The stereotype with Macs, of course, is that they're only good for music and artsy stuff. So I'm not surprised at all that Mac users are 25% of their customers now.
Apple would increase the memmory bandwidth on the G4 desktops( ie ddr ram ). 64bit PCI on G4's would also be a plus. I'll bet a rack of G4 Xservers would make amazing render servers though.
I do not see 3D going the same route as video editing & 2D editing, simply because of the current road that most 3D studios are following. Increasingly linux is being used instead of NT or SGIs in these studios. Why? Because they're cheap. No licensing for the OS, great remote administration support, amongst other things. Macs do not succeed at the efficientcy vs money contest anywhere as well as a linux box would. Another issue is that Macintosh has yet to get a highend 3D development card where as the selection is quite large for PC. I am not talking about GF4's here, but about Wildcats, Quadros, Glorias, etc. Only recently did Apple finally get a real GF4 and not the hobbled GF4 MX, and a GF4 is far from a highend 3D development card. I will be surprised if Apple takes over the 3D development market unless they start trying a new strategy.
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The Mac rumor industry just wasn't the same anymore. Back before Steve Jobs had retaken Apple, the illicit news and underground chirping was plentiful and knew no bounds. But since some time around June of 1997, everything dried up. Ryan remembered back to his last great rumor, the one about Apple and Oracle merging, and sneered. It had been a huge misinformation troll probably created by Steve himself, and Ryan had bitten. MOSR's credibility-- what little it had left-- had been shot, and ever since then pickings had been slim.
Shifting in his chair to reach for the night's sixth swig of Mad Dog, Ryan wondered how the other rumor-mongers did it. AppleInsider, though now nothing more than a forum for idiotic 15 year olds, had been right or nearly so with almost all of its articles. SpyMac, a newer site, regularly featured new snippets of information that always at least showed some kernel of truth when Apple finally showed its cards. It couldn't be that no one liked Ryan anymore, could it?
Wild Eep sounded from his iMac's speakers and Ryan excitedly command-tabbed over into Mail.app. Would it be a hot tip from Tron, his mole from Cupertino? Or would it be from his hot girlfriend with more news on her liposuction surgery? Or perhaps it was from his long-time friend from Motorola with more news on the PowerPC G6?
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There would be no update on MOSR tonight.
... I support Apple whole heartedly. I can understand why the .Mac venture began. But, what sickens me, recently, is none of the profit making methods they've been concocting. No, what bothers me is Sherlock 3. Obviously, the idea came from a company who once was a "privileged developer" of Apple's: Karelia . They made this amazing internet tool, called Watson, which does exactly what Sherlock 3 plans on doing. Apple stole their idea and has not, in any way, compensated them. I admire Apple, up to a point. But, pulling Microsoftian shit on a privileged developer does not bode well for me or for them.
...instead of waiting for software vendors to support two different versions of the same obscure operating system?
All software worth using works on Windows.