Is Revit Dead?

Bonjour Motherfuckers.

I think I'm going to wait a little while before I weigh in on Revit Sundial (these people could fuck up a sundial) because I haven't been able to ascertain whether it is being floated as the replacement for regular computer based Revit, or if it will just be a cloud hosted option.  I'll be researching both that, and any other dildos that Autodesk might be inclined to force down in the industries throat - if anyone has any more solid information regarding Sundial, feel free to post in the comments.

In the meantime I just happened to run across this guy's article (I was digging through a few, but I keep running into that problem of 90% of content/message board conversations/etc. on the web related to Revit being at least 4-5 years old, most of it appearing to center around 2011):

http://www.seandburke.com/blog/2014/03/29/is-revit-dead/

He is reassuring his fellow Revitbots that, yes, the sparkle ponies and rainbows shooting out of your ass are STILL out on there on the horizon - somewhere (along with 'infinite computing' which will be necessary to handle the bloated shitware they keep cranking out), and in the meantime they should relax, because Autodesk is, quote: 'in it for the long haul'.  Yes ladies and gentlemen - Autodesk has it's sites set on the next generation (you know, the one that spends all it's time staring at smart phones).

Oh wait - he already made an analogy about i-phones replacing computers (even though they haven't).  Hell - why the fuck not just have Revit on your phone? (I certainly have ACAD on mine), then you don't have to stop twatting, facebooking, or otherwise vining your snapchats in order to be bothered to do your fucking job.

He is trying to touch on a broad subject of 'what's next', so he does tend to jump from topic to topic - talking about a Revit 'ecosystem' (read: clusterfuck) one minute, and another reveling about the 'end' of the exclusive focus on Windows based programs, forgetting (again) that you need one MOTHERFUCKER of a machine to run Revit (and it is still fucking unstable).  The idea that a cloud-hosted app is going to be able to function seamlessly - and not end up fucking you so far into a hole in the ground that you will beg for death is a fucking myth at this point, and will continue to be so for some time into the future.

Oh - people will do it.  Just like they get sucked into every other ignorant fucking thing that comes along claiming to be 'the new shit'.  They will ignore real innovation in exchange for over-simplified and dumbed down garbage aimed at the lowest common denominator.  I think it was George Carlin (RIP) who said 'Think about how stupid the average person is - now consider that half of people are stupider than that'.

I'll jump track for just a second to re-iterate my honest opinion that the vast majority of technological 'innovations' and the products that they spawn are a fucking joke.  What's happened is that people have fallen for the fucking advertisements and the 'thrill' of getting to shell out their money for poorly designed, cheaply made crap that espouses the 'planned obsolescence' philosophy.

I'm no fucking luddite - I'm just sick and fucking tired of listening to people hold forth on the topic of 'technology' when they don't know ANYTHING about that technology.  They will speculate wildly and make uneducated observations about what it 'could' do (rather than what it is *supposed* to do).  The reality is that Autodesk doesn't give a shit about forwarding any of the various concepts this guy talks about - they ONLY GIVE A FUCK ABOUT MAKING MONEY.

It would seem to be in their best interest to do whatever is necessary to make people happy so they will purchase their product - but they've broken the fucking system.  The vast majority of Revit users don't buy or choose to use Revit (even the ones who claim to love getting fucked in the ass by it).  It gets handed down from above.  Autodesk could give a fuck if Revit users are happy and productive - as long as they keep raking in that MOTHERFUCKING CASH.

The Revitbots have deluded themselves into thinking that this is the be-all, end-all - read through the comments on that page and you will see a few attempts at speaking logic to dumbfuckery - but this guy does the same kind of shit that all brainwashed Revit hive-mind pieces of shit do, which is to claim that Revit is going to make huge advances in the next version, while simultaneously withholding his opinion on whether or not it will have 'value' until it is released and ignoring the track record.

I will give him credit for acknowledging that the MEP portion of Revit (which came along later) is less developed than the Architectural version.  I can guarantee he doesn't actually know what he means when he says that (see: 'wild speculations' and 'uneducated observations), or how it might affect the disciplines that he is dragging into the 'future'.

The future of Revit is unwritten, but unless people get their heads out of their asses and start demanding real advancements, fixes, stability, and (most of all) INTUITIVE INTERFACES -  and refuse to settle for bullshit placation, it will continue down the road to hell (paved, as always, with the best intentions).

I just happened to run across this - kudos to http://bimopedia.com/2013/04/02/revit-death-trap/




It perfectly represents the Revit experience, mentality, and end result of allowing a motherfucking two-bit software company to dictate how the fuck you do your goddamned job.

Fuck Autodesk, Fuck Revit, Fuck Revitbots, and if you don't like it - you can take a motherfucking step out that door bitch!!! (You don't have to worry though - the spikes were designed in Revit, so they probably won't work).
 
 -KCuFLLuKSKuLLFuCK