http://www.macrumors.com/2009/07/30/apple-finally-discontinues-shake/
I’m sad… I was looking forward to see what “Phenomenon” would be.
Macrumors clearly knows nothing of the subject if they would even hint that anyone could think the new Motion is any kind of replacement…
I could have sworn they said they won’t develop it any further a few years ago. :surprised
EDIT:
but the release of Shake 4.1 in mid-2006 was accompanied by the announcement that no further software updates were planned.
Ah! my bad, missed that. 
It is not a real surprise knowing what they said in 2006, but I will never forgive apple of killing such a good product. It is a complete scandal that this kind of things can happen.
Damn I hate the guys responsible of this ultra-lame marketing strategy.
Shame on you apple.
Had to happen eventually. I agree that it’s a shame though. Does this mean the Phenomenon rumours will finally go away? 
Nuke has been growing by leaps and bounds in the meantime, and it’s an incredible product. It’s obviously not at the same price point as Shake, but for a freelancer it’s still within reach after a few gigs.
Yes, they said there would be no more updates to “Shake” but they also said this:
They also mentioned somewhere in the shake product pages I believe (gone now) that the replacement software to shake will be very similar in the way it works currently. IOW… your training and knowledge won’t be pointless if you purchase the $499 version.
HATE?? …ummm Why?.. if Nuke is all people say it is then go $$Buy$$ it instead
Well I see NO reason to suddenly Stop Using My seat of 4.1
it not as though all seats of Shake worldwide will all be “Confiscated” from our Application folders or suddenly uninstall themselves.
I personally dont Fret about the Future of any Software Application
I just use what gets the job done for my business as long as My OS supports it
Cheers
I don’t own shake, I am using nuke at work and love it. But I think shake was a great product and it is a really bad thing to see it disappear. Of course shake still works at the moment, but in a few years it will be obsolete as it will never support newer technologies or formats.
Can you imagine if Autodesk kills XSI? Of course the other products would be able to do the job, but it would still be a terrible thing to do.
Things like this make me wonder what in the world Apple is doing. Why did Apple bother to purchase shake in the first place? Perhaps only Steve Jobs knows.
They have pro machines that are very expensive, but very competitive in price (I’m talking Mac Pros only here, where they are cheaper than Boxx and competitive with HP), and I feel their pro apps are floundering a bit. The logic users have a lot to be happy about after the last update (or so I’m told), but I don’t have a real feeling that the pro apps are going anywhere.
Their consumer products are really flying off the shelves, but I’d hate to see the pro market on Apple’s disappear. I just don’t like using Windows…
aww poor Shake… yay Nuke! The writing was on the wall years ago. Not surprised at all.
As Apple sinks more and more into an entertainment gadget company…
You Dont use shake??..so what your beef here??
I didnt use “truespace” and certainly did not give a hoot when Microsoft bought & killed it
Again how has it disappeared?
and BTW if open EXR ,Digital movie footage in general; ,alpha channels,Jpegs, targa, tiff & PSD, Ramping ,Footage stabilization,color keying& Grading etc etc all get replaced by "newer technologies"in a few years we will all have to pay more money to buy new upgraded software. so what’s the big deal.
People are reacting a though apple bought “The Grand Canyon”
and proceeded to back fill it with concrete and closed the park to visitors for ever.
Sorry but I am not seeing the great Moral Atrocity here
I dont expect any one type of software to last the rest of my life they come and go.:rolleyes:
Cheers
Well, I assume the point is that the next time you buy a new computer, you’ll have trouble moving your license over. And so you’re not just stuck using shake, but stuck using that computer as long as the computer’s hardware doesn’t die.
Or are shake licenses easy to migrate from one computer to another?
I was really bummed when I found out cdilla doesn’t work on 64bit machines, and now have to keep around a whole computer for those few times a year I need access to max 5.
True, but it does suck when some feature or way of doing something disappears from the software community. There are plenty of cool and useful things that old obsolete pieces of software do that have never been replicated in newer software, and it’s frustrating when something that used to take 2 steps now takes 20 in a new piece of software.
Shake is a fantastic compositing solution and was at a great price. Take this away and it is a large blow to many businesses.
Price of entry for compositing just went up big time.
Actually not. Apple performed some marketing fuzz in order to sell more hardware - Shake for MacOS + a new MacPro is way cheaper than the linux version alone - but if I remember right, prices for Fusion and AE were the quite the same a few years ago, not to mention Autodesk FFI.
But agreed, it’s a shame.
the $500 shake is Complete single user license
transferable to any computer
with unlimited network render nodes.
Cheers
Apple buys Shake in order to make money by selling hardware dongles
Apple discontinues Shake for Windows
Apple sells too many Linux versions of Shake and too few Mac licenses
Apple lowers the price for Mac-Shake
Apple still doesnt sell enough dongles
Apple discontinues Shake
Just be glad it was Autodesk that bought Maya and Softimage
Someone over on the MacRumors forums put it quite elegantly:
“Shake can’t run on an iPhone, so Apple doesn’t need it anymore.”
I thought it was quite fitting.
Perhaps a good business strategy for Apple, but bad for our industry. I wonder if this means Nuke’s pricing will now increase…
So for you shake didn’t need any improvement? And no new technologies in image manipulation will ever appear?
I can’t understand how you can accept that a software you think is so perfect can be put to death like a rabid dog. This software had a role in the compositing industry, and was a good foundation that could have been useful for many many years.
I would have been interested in shake if it had not been discontinued, and the fact that I’m not using it doesn’t matter. I will never use it, I will never be able to buy it, and I will never be able to see the wonderful improvements that would have come if it had not been discontinued.
That is a real shame, and this is a complete disregard for the interests of the customers. Of course life continues and so on, but you can’t say that this kind of marketing decision doesn’t harm the industry.