Quote - 500,000 users x $200.00 = $100 Million dollars in sales over the past ten years or so.  That's roughly $5-$10 million/year.  And that's just Poser.

Not that easy to calculate, IMHO. Here's why:

• Wanna lay odds on how many users got their copy of Poser from the 'BitTorrent/eMule Superstore'?

• I'm willing to further bet that 500k isn't specifically the # of license keys sold, but --in their own words-- "users" (and sounds a lot like how many folks that Rendo and CP counts among their respective memberships sorta-semi-combined).

• Also, you shouldn't forget how many got Poser as a legit freebie - out of 3D World Magazine, as a big ferinstance. Poser Artist went for $99 for at least, what - four years now?

• Oh, and let us not forget bulk licensing. Not enough to seriously affect the numbers overall (if they're truly sales), but enough to take notice of.

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Now as a counterbalance (of sorts) we do have... well, all of us schmucks in here who bought more than one version.

Given all of that, I'm less inclined to think that Smith Micro took EF to the cleaners or anything...

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