clsteve opened this issue on Nov 15, 2007 · 354 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Fri, 16 November 2007 at 11:15 AM
Quote - FEAR!!! I read this frantic speculation and i see alot of FEAR
(On the part of some not all)
*Bah. Even if Poser did go belly-up in another year or two (which I am not expecting to see happen), I wouldn't be losing any sleep over it. I'd just move on to the next app. If Poser didn't exist -- then another app that did the same thing would get invented pretty quick. DAZ's line is a ready-made move-to for any worried hobbyists.......and for the advanced amateurs, semi-pros, and pros there's always the big apps. Most of them probably aren't going away anytime soon.
Carrara falls into an intermediate zone -- which is unusual. IMO, there aren't many apps that can be called 'intermediate' -- but that's where Carrara sits. It's possible that Poser Pro will fall into the same type of intermediate category.
Quote - don't pronounce it dead just yet. I'd give it a year or two before I could tell at least somewhat for certain what's going to happen to it.
Precisely. Some are already writing the obituary -- and it's WAY too early for that. But some are in the regular habit of writing obituaries all of the time, anyway -- regardless of what's going on.
If someone shouts out prophecies of doom often enough -- then eventually they'll be right. But when they are: it's an event similar to a professional prognosticator's accuracy in predicting that there'll be a major earthquake which will occur somewhere in the world next year. The "accuracy" of their prediction is akin to the stopped clock being right twice a day phenomenon. In reality: it's not due to any special insight on the prognosticator's part. It's just that bad things happen occasionally, so if an individual always predicts that something bad is going to happen: then they are bound to be right sooner or later.
Human beings have a built-in inclination to see the worst in events: and then to be irresistably attracted to it.
We'll know where Poser is headed when it gets there. Not before.
************************************* > Quote - Quote - " Convince Adobe to buy Poser. "
If you think Poser's bloated now.... urk!
Please, don't ever mention that possibility again. Ever.
Adobe. Adobe! ADOBE!!!!!!
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