Not a good business decision if your going after market share, but maybe the app store fees are putting them off. Either way it’s their loss.
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Blender iPad App Development Halted as Android Tablets Get Priority
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Get the world’s best 3D CG technology in the hands of artists as free/open source software.Vision
Everyone should be free to create 3D CG content, with free technical and creative production means and free access to markets.Kinda goes against their principals for free and open source software. Not sure what business decision you are talking about.
Tagbert
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Apple is usually more than happy to get major apps ported to iPad as the available apps are a bit thin. From reading that post by one of the leaders of Blender, it sounds like this was more driven by politics within the Blender developer community.
business does not always revolve around money, their own mission statement talks about getting it in the most hand possible, by avoiding the most popular tablets in favour of an alternative that is by default against thier own statement.
If thier business is sharing it free it’s bad business sence.
If thier business is sharing it free it’s bad business sence.
rp2011
macrumors 68040
Apple clearly doesn't make it easy for non profit organisations. They always want some slice of something.
visualseed
macrumors 65816
I don't think the $100 is the issue. It’s the OSS license terms for distribution for the various components in the project that are giving them headaches. VLC had these same issues.
You are most likely right on that one, it is a shame though, would have been a nice thing to see
Can’t I imagine that’s the reason as many products on the App Store include OSS software. Usual rules about acknowledgement and providing links to the source etc. it could be more about the effort to bundle everything into an iPadOS app that seems daunting vs the more Linux like android app development. Sort of square peg round hole analogy.
Apart from the $99 developer fee, there is no payment to Apple for a free app.
Kilibee
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Of course unexpected, when looking at the market, but strategically might aim to kill two birds with one stone:
1. As others have pointed out already, Wacom runs on Android, and has a corporation with Blender
2. Apple might need a nudge to hand out some serious support for the iPad version.
1. As others have pointed out already, Wacom runs on Android, and has a corporation with Blender
2. Apple might need a nudge to hand out some serious support for the iPad version.
visualseed
macrumors 65816
As someone posted earlier, it does seem licensing is a concern of theirs.
Blender and Tablets
Thanks everyone for sharing your feedback on this topic. I’d like to address a couple of points before closing this thread. License and distribution. While building and developing Blender for iPadOS and iOS does not pose direct challenges to Blender license, distributing the software on the App...
Tagbert
macrumors 604
Yes, that is just vague enough to raise the question without touching on any of the possible issues.As someone posted earlier, it does seem licensing is a concern of theirs.
Blender and Tablets
Thanks everyone for sharing your feedback on this topic. I’d like to address a couple of points before closing this thread. License and distribution. While building and developing Blender for iPadOS and iOS does not pose direct challenges to Blender license, distributing the software on the App...devtalk.blender.org