Quote - But do I hate it SO MUCH that I'm going to stop buying products from DAZ?

No.

 

As a DAZ PA blondie, I would not expect you to stop buying products from DAZ.

I don't like the intallers either, & that wouldn't make me stop shopping there.  Although I have changed platforms over less. 

I would also point out that with newspapers, it is considered a general rule of thumb that for every letter to the editor, there are 100 folks that feel the same way as the letter-writer.

An App store, on the other hand, is a whole 'nother kettle of fish.

If the programmers that DAZ hired were competent, that would be one thing.  I own their software (DS 2,3,4; Bryce 5.5, 6, & 7 - RIP, Carerra 5 & 6, Hexagon - RIP. )

Their programmers simply are not that good.  Only 1 MAC programmer & apparently, neither they nor DAZ had spent $99 dollars for a ADC license.  Had that happened, the problems with 10.7 would not have occured.  They would have been aware that Rosetta was going away.  Earlier, they would have known that Carbon-64 was whacked in 2007, I can go on & on & on.

I fully expect DAZ to futz an app store, just like they did the website rollout, Artzone, etc.

They have a long illustrious history of failure when they move outside of providing content.  Which actually is part of the problem.  DAZ takes concepts that work well for selling content & try to apply it to designing software.  Expertise in one area does not translate into expertise in another area, but experts often think so.

The people griping here may be a minority, but face it; DAZ_Rand would not have come onto this forum & started this thread if the bottom line was not being affected.  Listening to the customers, as someone has already pointed out, simply isn't in their DNA.