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Reviewers have compared Autodesk to Google and their Spark software to Android before and I’m more convinced than ever that it’s an accurate assessment. Autodesk is not a new tech company, they are what they have always been, a software company. Creating a 3D printer, and a good one, is just a way to show off their software. When Google announced their phones a lot of people incredulously asked why a search engine would get into the electronics business. And now that Android phones dominate the world, and the Google software is virtually ubiquitous even on Apple machines, they have their answer.

I have no business spending $5k on a 3D printer. But Monoprice has theirs for $999 today and rather than regretting not spending a grand on a 3D printer I prefer to see why spending a grand on a 3D printer is far stoopider than not spending $5k on a 3D printer, if that makes sense.

Yeah, the article is from September. I hadn't seen it until now. Sue me.