CL does not have a Steve Jobs, and DAZ hasn't injected money in CL to help it survive. This said, Poser was mainly a mac app in the beginning, and its translation to PC has been a bit awkward. Things did look bad for P5 one day, and the whole community staggered. At that moment, DAZ started making their own app because it looked like Poser had no future. Since that Japanese company has taken CL under its wings, things are changing. But DAZ should not stop as most Poser users work only with Daz' meshes (V, M, SP, dragon,.... Seeing Posette or Don is rare. To come back to your original comparizon, without Intel no G4, and without Win2K and Linux, no OSX. Concurrence is a good thing for price, and for quality.

I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now I'll be mad. (Rumi)