Firstly, because Smith Micro made some wrong decisions. They decided to implement some of the vital parts of P8 in an external 'language', not adding it to the P8 core code. That's asking for problems..... on top of that they failed to hire a pro for doing this. Secondly, simply because the number of testers are to limited to catch every problem there is with P8. Thirdly they aren't a good reflection of the poser user base. Fourthly because no one gets it right the first time, but with Poser the mess is always greater then with other applications.

I just have to react on this:

1. Are these just assumptions, or do you have inside information? As far as I know they have a professional team that has been working on this. I'm just glad they have finally decided to change those more vital parts, something E-frontier and Curious Labs should have been done years ago. Everyone was complaning about the render engine, its poor memory management and the library, and SM has to guts to do something about it. And about what language are you talking? I suppose you have some knowledge in programming, but in this "mambo-jambo" is no-one interested.
2. There is no limit on beta-testers to catch every issue, the number of possible situtations is just to big. You would need half the planet to catch everything.
3. I just don't agree, As I said: the render engine and the library were the biggest problems, and they have done something about it.
   4.Agree that you don't get something right in the first time but you disagree with yourself by mentioning Vue.

It's always easy to shoot on a new release or upgrade, because there will be always errors and crashes, there is some rule that you never should buy a new upgrade untill it's stable but people forget that without the first buyers and their feedback to the company who has released it there will never be a stable upgrade.

just my opinion.

Bopper.

-How can you improve things when you don't make mistakes?