Apologies - I have just come across you Styles and Standards Editor video. Strange that I didn't receive and email when you posted it, as I have subscribed to your channel. But no worries. Thanks again

Haha been busy, like close to burn out busy with no sign of it stopping! But the KZfaq algorythm is kicking my ass cos of the gaps in the upload schedule so I do need to keep on top of it!

cruciferousvegetable Oh Google haven't demonetised my vids but tbh if they did it wouldn't even matter, at this channel size you're talking $250 per month income for my entire channel. The ad revenue just isn't a thing for me, it might as well be turned off!

You should monetize in other ways, like Patreon. I don't give a shit about the extra content and crap, I just like to chip in a buck a month to people I learn from. It ads up.

Not really, they are still working on making Inventor newer and better every year, Fusion 360 is their cloud software, they'll keep that as their cloud software.

I hope you are right.

Yea I don't see them trying to push anyone yet, although they are putting a massive amount of R&D and promotion into the cloud stuff, I haven't seen any evidence to suggest they're pushing people towards it yet. Carl Bass was a huge cloud fanboy so who knows what the next CEO will do with all that. If they don't change path I do think it will end up being a push to cloud software but it won't happen for years, maybe even beyond most of our working lives. The internet in general is too unreliable to invest 100% of your business into, that's been made very apparent today after that worldwide ransomware attack

IMO, the ransomware attack is the result of terrible security practices and budgetary restrictions, not that the internet is unreliable. It's unreliable and redundant by design. In terms of cloud applications, I look at it from the viewpoint of the developer. They can make great strides in feature development with less risk by being able to make small fixes to the backend live to everyone instantly. They are also able to take advantage of parallel computing to increase user experience and interactivity. It also makes providing the entire power of the application to multiple platforms much easier. Also, no more hardware dongles, licensing servers, licenses, and no piracy. Given the upsides to the developer, user, and the way competition works, I expect this trend in software development to increase in popularity. The major problem Autodesk needs to solve IMO, is uptime. They can't take it down, ever. When they upgrade they need to have a set of transfer servers that allow the existing product to function. It needs to be more hot swap for the customer.

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What kind of problems?

I tend to agree, I am a bit disappointed at Autodesk doing such flimsy solution that will cause much problem in larger projects.