>>20334311st Place, unlike the other large companies, sees itself more as a label for music producers than a software developer. Rather than being concieved as an instrument that gets defined by the community, IA gets marketed as a brand by 1st Place directly, tied in closely to the other activities of the record label. This is why you see IA concerts consisting of mostly Jin, Teddy, out of survice etc. They take the music business so seriously, they couldnt even market IA/VT in the US because of "licencing issues".
That being said, as it happens, 1st Place often displays bad taste (produced by artists circlejerking together), and they insist to project their taste on IA. This and their try hard profit-turning company attitude can be seen as a bane to people used to the traditional "the user decides it all" concept of Vocaloid.
