yes, thats the way

 

I think many of you are a little crazy in saying you would have made a different decision. In fact, the only one less detached from monetary reality is Splice. Spitfire's customers will probably find elsewhere to buy their sample-based instruments. That's why they have him saying he is "staying". They hope the customers will stick with him out of loyalty or some silly idea like that. But really, he is probably just going to be there for a "transition period" of whatever length of time.

They (Spitfire) as a company, are selling software, computer files, and tech support. Staring down the barrel of AI in an unpredictable situation.
That company could be worth nothing in a few years, and no-one can concretely know otherwise. Whatever they walk with after taxes is guaranteed money in the bank. Sure, they probably have some ironclad no direct compete clauses; but they will likely not prohibit doing any, and all; other work in music or software engineering.

Let's just say, to use a number; every license Spitfire sells is an average of $300. To make that $50 million on sales, that would be 166,000 licenses to sell. Good luck with that.

 

I thought by the title that they were going out of business or splitting up like Tonehammer did. Nah, just cash that check and walk away.
I mean how bad could an aquisition be? Opcode anyone?

 

Lots of people in this thread won't care about Spitfire....
But for those of us who do... @SpyFx ✪ ✓ ....
You just ran like a God with those screenshots...
I have seen the Lord of Libraries, and his name is SpyFx.

 

I used to use Labs but it was buggy and always lost connection to the libraries I had downloaded. Wasn’t worth the hassle.

 

50 million? Seriously? Fuck me sideways.

 

Totally unrelated, but Im looking for investors in my startup, called SpliceFire. With the help of AI, we create pristine sample libraries from lost and found samples found on my hard drive. Asking for 100 million initial seed round. LMK.

 

An insider reports: Money is always looking for investment opportunities and returns.
We borrow money at low interest rates or speculate with our investors' money, regardless of the product.
Today we invest in toilets, tomorrow we invest in AI.

The day after tomorrow we buy a struggling company and lay off many redundant workers.
A quick email informs them they're fired, and goodbye. The main thing is that it makes money.

In the evenings, we like to drive our flashy Porsches to our elite golf club, where we meet people like us and enjoy ourselves with our wealth at the expense of others. Our god is money!!!