Quote - That's why I said what I said about Poser marketing. Poser is late. Much like in the tortoise/hare fable, they have missed the train.
Each sensible user would rather get DAZ Studio, except a handful old dinosaurs who have got too much used to Poser that they are incapable of changing their habits; And that's not a market share.

In all fairness, while I can agree with the statement in principle (technically, you're spot-on), I don't think this is the whole case.

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Part of the reason why? Poser still has goods that are a bit indispensable, yet D|S doesn't have them. I'm not talking about dynamics, the face room, or any of the CPU-sucking fluff that gets more marketing time than actual usage. I'm talking about the hidden and the oft-ignored corners of the app: hierarchy editing, joint editing, things of that nature... things that are pretty powerful once you dig in and put them to real use.

A second something to mentally chew on is that -like it or lump it- Poser still has a large and zealous community, folks who are in no hurry to ditch the years of patient learning of what is certainly a quirky application. As much as I would hope that Poser got a real UI (no, really), and one that didn't feel like a kludge, I don't see it happening (and it was pretty much confirmed earlier in this thread, no?)

Also, a lot of it is not the Poser coding team's fault (well, not down in the trenches, anyway). Think of it this way: a MacOS app because a Windows app became an OSX (on PPC, then universal binary) and Win32 app, which is by now about to be a OSX (Intel) and Win64 app.

Not too easy to simultaneously clean out cruft without breaking legacy compatibilities, keep up with the rising competition's feature sets, and at the same time present a compelling application that doesn't have to rely on Moore's Law just to run itself halfway smoothly. Oh, and did I mention that during this whole time, the Poser team's owners keep changing, with twice the speed and frequency of a dockside prostie's john list during Fleet Week...

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Now, all that said, hey - props to 'em. OTOH, Darwin's theorems apply just as equally to business as they do to evolution, and D|S is getting downright upwardly mobile these days.  So yeah, I agree with what you're saying, but there's a lot more to it behind the scenes :)