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Circuit Studio Dead? (again!)
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: tooki on December 23, 2024, 03:10:09 pm ---I didn’t mean that they’d limit it to their own components. It wouldn’t be usable in such a form. Just that by seeing it as something complementary/synergistic to their real product, rather than seeing it as a profit center in its own right, they might subsidize it in part or in full.
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There is much greater chance of that now than there was when Altium was on it's own.
It did happen once though, I was actually there in the room when Altium founder Nick Martin announced they would slash the price by 80% (from $10k to $2k) and said "there is no going back to high priced software".
Didn't last that long until the shareholder pressure forced the price back within a year or so. And then Nick got forced out and was replaced with Aram who ran the company like a money printing machine for the shareholders (of which he was the biggest).
The thing with Altium, and why it was always debt free, was that it was a just a software product run by a fairly lean team. Unless Renesas change that model, if they wanted to run it as a cost neutral division, then they could easily drastically drop the price.
Without seeing the recent internal numbers, my guess would be that 80% drop could easily happen again.
I'm not predicting it, just noting that's it's possble and way more likely than before the buyout. That would be really cool.
johnboxall:
--- Quote from: johnboxall on December 19, 2024, 06:22:10 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 19, 2024, 05:56:23 am ---
--- Quote from: johnboxall on December 19, 2024, 01:17:50 am ---Haven't used CS since 2017, but my AD license is about to expire.
They offered me another year of AD standard for AU$1500+GST as I had an expired CS license.
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That seems very cheap.
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They're hyper-keen. Will let them stew on it for another week.
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Just to finish up, Altium came to the party with a price I didn't think was achievable. Now for 11 and a half months of peace and quiet.
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