The Poser APP may or may not have a future - the Poser IDEA will definitely have a future. Poser provides a cross-platform, cross-app "integrator" for all kinds of 3rd party stuff AND extensive modification/personalization options. Meaning that you can create original work based on stock content - also known as "outsourcing" all the work you're not interesting in doing yourself, and concentratingn on what you WANT to do. It's the wave of the future, and that future is arriving alreay. The signs are all over the 3D world, they just don't call it "the Poser principle" yet ;o) Pro studios and individual amateurs are using stock models, tex's, motions etc. in any number of projects, from games to movies. Hey, several do-it-all-yourself apps (such as TrueSpace and Cinema4D) are beginning to offer ready-to-use Poser-style content. Why? Because studio and amateur alike want to get their vision or product out as fast as possible - they've got other visions or clients in the pipeline ;o) The same idea is spreading "from the other side" in Machinima (movie-making with games engines instead of 3D apps), check it out (www.machinima.com and www.machinima.org). 3DWorld magazine had a fascinating article in # 39. To quote : "It's at this frontier that Coppola's vision comes true : an individual animator working alone like a painter, a novelist or a poet, makes a work of art." All art discussions aside (please!), expand this to include still images, and you have a perfect description of what the Poser idea makes possible. Oh, the Poser APP (or DAZ Studio) will need lots of added functionality (see any wish list in the Forums), but it's the IDEA that sets it apart - to have a virtual studio on the desktop of anyone who gets bitten by the creative bug. A studio where you can bring in any number of talented co-workers for your projects via a Marketplace for Poser-formatted content. To each his own virtual ILM ;o) That's why I think the idea is here to stay, whatever specific app will express it. Learning how to think and work that way will be a good investment of your time, IMHO.