Google is selling SketchUp Pro for $495 – Why?
The program, SketchUp Pro is not strange – its a architecture and landscape design program which appears to have not only a nice range of features but also integrates well with AutoDesk DWG and other CAD files. No the novelty here is that Google is doing this. True, Google is in the software business and they have a new Web Store, and they sell Google Apps and other cloud software. But this is a passingly strange software sideline. Is this just honoring a purchase agreement made a few years ago. Is this help for a Stanford buddy? Any novel suggestions will be duly noted in the comments below.
Strange Software II
Autodesk is selling this for $59
Okay you can get Autodesk SketchBook Pro 2011
Are these precursor signs of Autodesk and Google entering the graphics software markets in a bigger way? Only the Drop Shadow knows…
PostScript: SketchBook Pro is of sufficient interest, that wel will do a review of it along with Corel Painter in the next month