by gmint » Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:22 pm
What I think is particularly peculiar is that there actually seems to be development going on at GarageCube but only in the form of MadMapper. Clearly MM is in active development if you follow that site. What I'm not clear on is what the extent of GarageCube's involvement is in that progress. From what I can tell, MM seems to be a joint venture of sorts. What I've been wondering as of late is if perhaps Modul8 and MadMapper will eventually merge into one program. Clearly, mapping is the hot thing right now and it would probably be a better business model to just roll the two programs into one.
I do find it somewhat peculiar that there is essentially radio silence when it comes to GarageCube on these forums. I mean, someone had posted here asking about a discount on licenses over the Christmas season and there was no answer from anyone. However, if you look at the Mad Mapper site, there actually WAS a discount on MM and Modul8. Seems very strange to me that someone wouldn't take the time to just make a quick response to potentially sell their product.
Unfortunately, I have no inside knowledge of GarageCube. But as I type, it seems most likely that Modul8 might continue life as something that is integrated into MM. When one considers that most of the recent (I use that term loosely) enhancements to Modul8 pertain to technologies which facilitate integration (e.g. Syphon), it seems clear that GarageCube recognizes a need for that type of workflow. As I've said before, to this day Modul8 continues to serve me well and I don't actually *need* any new features. However, it is perhaps the very fact that Modul8 continues to work (despite several major OS upgrades) and work fairly well, that leads me back to these forums on a regular basis. It's still a very viable product and I have a very hard time that GarageCube would abandon that...