ashley9803 opened this issue on Feb 18, 2008 · 139 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 20 February 2008 at 4:28 PM
Quote - IM really curious
Why do you have this belief that SM is
hiding some secret features from it user base and purposefully publishing
an incomplete/misleading feature list?
what do you believe they have to gain from such a ploy???
Show me where I said that SM is "purposefully" publishing an incomplete/misleading feature list, and then I'll buy into what you are saying. I never said that -- you did.
Unlike some others, I don't assign sinister motives to the corporate types if and until such a time as it's actually proven to me that they harbor such motives. Frankly, that kind of forum talk generally stems from an eager willingness to buy into the worst possible assumptions -- assumptions -- about what a given company is doing. There's a whole lotta pronouncements made in forum postings that comprise nothing other than just so much guessing or commentary-style interpretation of events -- but which are frequently presented as set-in-stone facts. So I make no judgments whatsoever as to SM's feature list being "purposefully" wrong.......as in deliberately created by them in a dishonest way.
There are legitimate reasons for the features of a final release to differ in some ways from a published feature pre-list. And especially so in this case.
1. I do not know that SM was running the show at the time that the feature list was published. SM might decide to make some changes, now that they are running the show.
2. ANY company might find things that they feel need to be changed/deleted/corrected/whatever between a previous announcement and an actual software release. This isn't "dishonesty" on a given company's part -- it's merely recognizing reality.
BTW - as I mentioned earlier, the final released version of Poser Pro could turn out to be either better or worse than what the feature list now shows. I'll also add that the final release could turn out to be precisely as the feature list indicates. But based upon prior experiences with software releases -- it'd be an interesting anomaly to watch if that is true. Until the release happens: I won't be making any assumptions -- in any direction.
3. I wish that people would get over the need to assign negative motives to companies and / or individuals with whom they disagree. It's just possible that they are what they appear to be. Perhaps some company does harbor bad motives for doing what they do -- but such companies usually don't last. They usually get caught.
So, no -- I harbor no "belief" that SM is in any way, shape, or form being "dishonest" or "misleading". I am merely standing on prior experience and a solid recognition of reality.
Next charge, please.............