Ok, Iāll stay tuned over the next few days both on the forums and at the http://www.rhino3d.com/mac site. Thanks.
It would be great if could make it so your uk distributors sell the Mac version at the introductory price ASAP?
Some distributors may not have āturned onā their Rhino for Mac pages/info yet, as the official announcement is for Mondayā¦ Suggest you check with your favorite distributor then. --Mitch
Fantastic! Thanks Dan, ordering nowā¦
The problem here in Britian is dealers are usually ignorant- my own personal experience that is!-I will check for an update monday but if dealers donāt offer us it on monday???
Well, I donāt know all of the dealers in the UK, but one of the largest and most active ones is a good friend and he and his team are far from ignorant. Their main page has āMac coming soonā right at the top, so Iām willing to bet the sales stuff is ready to be switched on tomorrow morning.
Iām sure youāll find someone who will.
Edit: As I suspected, the site I mentioned above now has now āswitched onā their Rhino for Mac sales. Itās right in the front page.
āMitch
The Mac Intro price is VERY reasonable. For my part Iām thrilled to have the opportunity for dual Win/Mac licenses for a such a price. I rave to others about how McNeel is the model for a fair minded and responsive software company, and once again they exceed my expectations. Intuit please take noteā¦
So, even if You asked kindly for mac license number, you would not get it, would You? Am I right?
Iām afraid I donāt understand the question hereā¦
I suspect the number of users wanting to give up their WinRhino license in exchange solely for a MacRhino license will be very small. If McNeel were to permit this exchange they would likely win far more goodwill than they would lose financially. Thus, this would not only be pretty cool, it would be proof positive of just how good MacRhino has become in the eyes of some users.
Now, is this ātechnicallyā possible? That oneās for McNeel to answer!
Technically possible, yes. All they have to do is āinvalidateā the license in their database. The license locally installed will of course keep working, but they can no longer get service releases or use it to upgrade.
However, all of that is moot, Windows Rhino users who actively tested Mac Rhino had a special (non-public) pre-release offer to acquire Mac Rhino at a price that was āalmost freeā. So there was actually no need to give up their Windows license.
IMO, the special intro price of 295 is already a giveaway compared to the Windows license price of 995.
āMitch
Really !! I had a win rhino license, but never got an offer of update. I purchased at the current price. Was this offer only for latest Windows version. As I had hung onto my old license ?
Yes, you had to be a registered Rhino 5 for Windows user and have actively tested Mac Rhino (I donāt know what the criteria was for that).
Ok, thats fair enough, as the price I paid was equal to an update. Cheers for clarification.
Yep Iām very happy
Philip
The Modo licensing scheme is nice. You buy one license and you can use it on any platform you wish; Windows, Mac or Linux.
Same with Adobe. I love the Creative Cloud too, the ability to download and use on any platform is just right.
mcneel should do thatā¦ then youād only have to pay 295 for a mac license and use it on windows
what i expect to happen (for no actual reason) is that the two versions will eventually meld together more and Rhino for Mac -or- Rhino for Windows will just become Rhino againā¦ (well, iām sure itās still just rhino if youāre a windows user)ā¦ a license will cost the same for either platform.
right now, theyāre more-or-less separate products.
The actual reason, IMO, is convenience and modernity, once both are more equal. Until then, the discount/separation is logical.