The Knights Templar were framed, I tell ya! :)

Complication isn't the issue.  It's all perception.  Those who use the pro software continue to piss on Poser (sorry, but that's an apt euphemism) while those who aspire to it keep finding inroads where Poser fails (games and distractions - a BIG market - did I say BIG enough).  Poser fills a niche that keeps dwindling.  The pros want self-made, self-rigged characters. The other end of the spectrum wants barbie dolls for easy user assembly and automation.  Poser can't straddle the middle ground forever.

Again, I'm not trying to be the antagonist here.  Poser is great for ready-made, highly flexible, quality content.  But it seems to be failing in drawing in the support deserved.  You'd think that with the increases in cpu speed, memory access, permanent storage that Poser would be flourishing more than expected.  So why the floundering sale of e-frontier to Smith Micro?  Yahoo had enough bollocks to say "Eh, no thanks" to M$ (wow).  That can only come from confidence and success.  One doesn't sell ones children unless abysmally desparate.

The technical advancements applied to Poser have been rather good.  How many other softwares have a material system as flexible as Poser (thanks to Pixels 3D)?  What is the problem?  Remember my statement about AmigaOS.  It isn't about reality here.  One just has to one-upsmanship your opponent in the right way at the crucial moment to destroy them.  M$ just chugged along and put out (crappy-old) Windows 95 to counter the trends.  They leveraged every under-handed technique to win over the users ("everyone uses MS-DOS/Windows", "we're better than our competition", "we have more hardware support", blah, blah).  Billy is a world-class salesman - he could sell your mother cow patties for $500 a piece. :D

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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