Quote - If Poser evaporated tomorrow morning at 9am sharp, I believe the market is large enough to have a decent critical mass - one that could self-sustain for quite awhile, until something came along to replace it entirely

I think the big obstacle long-term is marketing outside the graphics realm - to get the word out

That's the problem. Once people know an app is dead, they're not so keen on sinking more money into content for it. DS/Carrara could probably pick up some of the slack and the die-hard poser users would grit their teeth and carry on, but any market needs to expand, if only to recover users lost to general attrition, death, boredom, etc. That means attracting new users and doing that with a dusty app on a shelf isn't easy.

Which is why we should all be hoping it'll never come to that.

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