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From my experience, Autodesk excels on integrating useful features.  Their Bonus Tools (which are often written by users) tend to appear as new, fully supported features of future releases.

Yes, I know. I was only kidding.  :-)
But what I meant was you don't see them pretending to take requests then not deliver. And you also don't see them releasing the same thing year after year with only minor changes to the same theme.

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Sorry I can't engage on any potential feature discussion. It's too competitve a landscape to reveal ones hand

While I can understand you not wanting to discuss features or plans, I don't think that's correct reasoning for not doing so. Poser has no competition, really. No program does what it does and does it so quickly and so well. maybe DAZ Studio, but that's a free program - they're gonna be competition no matter what as long as the price is zero.

But aside from that, the "biggies" in the 3D world announce what they're up to. We know what cool new features the next version of 3ds max, maya, Lightwave, Vue, etc. is going to have, well ahead of time. Mudbox is attempting to overtake ZBrush right now and seems to be having good success at it, and Autodesk was making people aware of what was on the horizon for quite a bit ahead of time.
If anything, it's those complete 3D packages which have real competition to worry about. Somehow I can't see the makers of Quidam saying to themselves one day, "Look, SM is gonna put real functionality into Poser - quick call in the programmers!". ;-)

Actually I wish Poser had more real competition than it does. I wish it  didn't have this hobbyist stigma attached to it and y'all were more concerned with making it actually compete in The Big Market. It could be so much more if you had that competition and desire to see it through to what it could be.

I'll tell you another thing I would like to  see, FWIW. I'd like to see a $1500.00 Poser which can stand on its own and not need badly-implemented plugins just to get it into more capable apps.