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NaN Technologies files for bankruptcy

updated 07:55 pm EST, Thu March 14, 2002


NaN Technologies, maker of the free Blender 3D application for the Macintosh, today announced that it will cease all operations immediately. Software development will be frozen, and the company's website is mostly unavailable until further notice. Shareholders cite an unready marketplace as a cause for the collapse: "The digital media market has shown that it is not quite ready for the Blender technology offering, both for the Internet and for wireless applications."


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  1. larry56073

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    03/14, 11:42pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    another

    one bites the dust

  1. HeatherEcsedi

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    03/15, 09:33am | report spam | Reply |

    That hurt, huh ?

    Why some people are doing this to themselves ? 3D on the Mac platform, I wouldn't go as far as saying you don't have a chance, but you must be willing to take a great risk.

  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    03/15, 10:22am | report spam | Reply |

    Re: That hurt, huh?

    Mac was the last platform that Blender supported. It was started in Linux, and added Win32 and other *NIX flavors later. It was only a few months ago that a beta for OS X came out.

  1. johnsonua

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    03/15, 03:10pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: That hurt, huh?

    Yeah, the same great risk that Electric Image, NewTek, Strata, Alias, Eovia, Maxon, Pixels, Curious Labs, Hash and Corel are taking.

    Riiiigght...No 3D on the Mac, ever. Not a lick.

    Blender failed because they misjudged the market for moderately powerful but really, really, REALLY hard to use 3D apps.

    Like the market for mail-order pet food, it wasn't as large as the sock puppet thought.

    Their biggest market segment were the Linux crowd, where they didn't have a choice.

    On any other platform there are many apps actual humans can use.

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