Originally posted by The Architect
I think it is possible that Autodesk will merge Max and Maya. Think about it. They are a company, the only important thing to them is making profit. The more the better. So why have two development teams when you can have one? It saves the hassle of spending money and it saves the hassle of supporting two apps. Makes lots of sense from a business point of view.
I can understand the different markets with different requirements, but I have doubts about whether that can be applied to Maya. Max and Maya are both positioned to be high end products, regardless of what they have been traditionally used for (Maya for movies, Max for games) there is always going to be overlap.Originally posted by gster123
It dosent not really, if you think about having 2 apps, you can send one down one route and keep one half of an industry happy, and send the other down the other and keep the other side of the industry happy, that way the more taylored the app is the more people in the target sector you'll get using it, merge it into one and your going to alienate people that will switch to another app thats more "suited" to the job at hand.
Think about say a car, its like saying that ford should just make a middle of the road car (say for argumants sake a mondeo saloon) and stick at that, that way they have less development, manufacturing costs etc, but if some consumers want a small car there pushed out and have to look elsewhere, if they want an estate, look elsewhere, even though the thing there developing "fits" the average user.
Dont jinx it steve! :pOriginally posted by gster123
Hey Maybe Microsoft and apple will join?????