"All of the human population can not realisticly be assumed to be a potential market for any commercial product that is not Eaten,lived in, or worn on the body for protection& Warmth."

LOL! Of course not, hyperbole is rhetorical not logical.

"so yes market saturation for a software program is quite possible considering the limited use of such a product."

That might be for software used to calculate the number of coils of wire to wrap on a transformer, or to develop a pattern for a Singer embroidery machine. Certainly not for applications like word processors. When speaking in the billions that is not likely for DS and Poser products. Even in the USA, the average population is growing daily more sophisticated in terms of their use of technology (computers).

Among the six billion people made our neighbors by the Internet, the potential market of folks that could be interested in DS or Poser dwarfs those who already know about these products. The increasingly worldwide nature of this market is well demonstrated in this forum and marketplace (where our international friends charitably put up with using English, almost exclusively). Both DAZ and SM are well aware of local and global trends, and show every indication of actively positioning themselves to attract (a lot) more users, not just satisfying those of us who already use their applications.

But, whatever the future does bring, I hope the up-coming releases from DAZ and SM will contain a lot of interesting features. They will be sure to stimulate some lively conversations after the fact. Seeing that actual firm information about those features is so closely guarded, for now, speculative discussions like this are about all we have to bid the time (except rendering).

Cheers in return,

lmk

Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.