So despite a great business model that provided extremely good revenue numbers that more than paid for keeping it around, Google decided to divest. Let me repeat that: They had half a billion (with a B) in revenue while providing a full featured free product.īut Google had originally acquired it as part of developing 3D technology for Google Maps, and that ended up going in different direction, deriving 3D data from photos instead of model building. A golden cash cow supported by a free product. That’s half a billion in revenue while providing an amazing free product. That business model got them 5 million users with 25% of them paid. Definitely not any kind of “breaking even” compared to my billing rate at Apple, Google, Netfix, etc., but it was a generous recognition of my contributions and I was having fun. ![]() I put in a significant amount of time supporting other Free users and in exchange Google let me Beta test the upcoming versions and for working on that they gave me a free copy of Pro. That’s pretty amazing and I talked it up whenever I could. I was extremely fond of Google’s business model: A full featured product for free with the enhancements that a professional user would value available in the paid version. I pretty much left when Trimble got greedy. I can’t speak for Cat, Gully, Geo, or Taff. Some of them I know about, why the left or are “on low profile”. And there was also our dome expert, (see Extension Warehouse). What made them disappear.Īnd don’t forget our dear friend Geo ( Knowles) and Mohr. But they were fanatic, friendly, sometimes fierce Sages. That information helps us help you.Īs Catamountian, as our hard teacher Gully F., for those who were around at the time. Those extensions that aren’t up to date or require special installation or have licenses that aren’t kept in the Plugins folder will need your special attention.īy the way, please complete your forum profile with SketchUp version, Windows version, and graphics card model. If you choose to copy the Plugins folder, be ready to chase loading errors when SketchUp starts. You can make migrating easy by copying the folders shown below into the new version of SketchUp. ![]() Those users don’t want to be told there are updates and won’t update them. ![]() Every so often someone complains that they get a pop message saying there are extensions that have updates. Both of those things are currently impossible. exe for example) and forced users to keep their installed extensions updated. It would be easier to make the business of migrating extensions automatic if they forced extension authors to keep them up to date and not allow them to use other installers ( no installation by.
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