Quote - Most people who have bought Poser have not used any 3rd party content at all.

Proof, please. Considering the massive sales of 3rd-party content, the complete and utter comparative lack of accessories and clothing for the default content, and discounting those who play with the app once or twice?

I'd prefer to see some sort of evidence that you assertion is even halfway true.

What percentage of who hangs out in what forums means nothing by way of evidence. What matters are sales, and what the market is doing - and more importantly, what the market is providing. The market at large is crammed full of products for you-know-who's figures, and by comparison, there ain't jack for the default figures (at least not outside content paradise.)

Tech world parallel time again:

The iPhone has far and away the largest and most bewildering array of accessories and apps on the planet. Android comes in a close second. The Windows Mobile phones are down in the basement somewhere. Blackberry? Blackberry who again? If we look at marketshare, it bears out: Apple and Android lead the market. Windows Phone is struggling hard, and making little-to-no headway. Blackberry is so low in marketshare by now that you'd need a septic specialist to find it. QED: Whatever Apple and Google (Android) do, the market follows. 

In translation, Apple = Vicky/Mike. There is no analogue to Google here. Antonia and a few other meshes like it are like Windows Phone - struggling against established competitors, and the future depends on them. SM default figures? They're down in Blackberry territory - yeah they're there, and some folks still use 'em, but there's little-to-no 3rd-partysupport going on and thus no growth.

Quote - I think the big lesson we have learned is not to depend too much on a single content provider...

Right now, Smith Micro has onegreat big 6-year-old pillar propping it up, and it does not own or control, or even influence that pillar. 

Quote - DAZ can do everything it wants with their own content and software, like they have always done. That does not mean we have to be happy about it or wishing them success

Nobody is asking you to.

Wait - let me repeat that:

NOBODY IS ASKING YOU TO!

Seriously, get off your hate-wagon for a minute and think about this one line:

It does NOT matter WHO supplies the most popular mesh! If that supplier is NOT Smith Micro, then Poser is at the mercy of whomever it is! 

If I could find a way to make that line glow, blink, and somehow burn into your codependent grudge-addled ideology, I would do it.

Smith Micro has exactly two viable options at this point: 

1. encourage a diverse base of highly popular figures (anyone with two working neurons can cruise the marketplaces and know that this isn't happening, your assertions to the contrary. If you have any credible evidence at all saying otherwise, then let's see it.)

2. build a set of base meshes sufficiently useable that the markets all gear towards them instead of any third-party base meshes.

 

The first option puts them at the mercy of the community, which is about as reliable as a spider web in a hurricane. The second puts the future in their own hands, where it belongs.