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No, more like Dell doesn't manufacture CPUs, so how many computers would they sell if they were still loading computers with x86 486 chips they still had lying around instead of the Intel 64-bit chips people want?

If you look thru the signatures on here where people list what their computer specs are, many of them are I7 stuff.  Are you running An I7? Lots of people think that an I7 is the best there is, and I7s are what they happen to have laying around... I7s were first released in 2008...... Yes they are a little faster, but its the same 5 year old design.... If you want new and shiny, an I7 isn't it. New and shiny from Intel is an E7-4870 LGA1567 10 core Xeon. And I'll bet no one here is running those yet.... If your an AMD fan, it would be a 16 core Opteron setup. (which ironically is cheaper to build than a high end I7)

Your analogy doesn't go along the same lines as mine did, but you did prove a point and probably didnt realize it...

People want what they think is the best...

No, people won't buy tech that won't allow them do keep up. The content provided with the Poser is old or horrible looking. Certain macbooks still work well, however, they can't be upgraded to the latest operating system. You'd be hard press to get someone to pay for something that they know won't work with things in the future. Or people won't buy a cellphone with just a keypad to dial numbers when they know they want to text.

 

Quote - Genesis is not the best, but it is far more affordable than other alternatives to do similar things. Just like the I7s are cheap compared to a top end Xeon.

If Genesis was some ground breaking technology, it would be in everything already...

Well it did win an award. ;)

However, I think DAZ jumped the shark and should have been working on products to get it into high end apps than spending the last 1 1/2 years of trying to get it into Poser when smith micro didn't want it. That was their mistake because they could have covered some serious ground rather than mess with that horrid CR2 exporter. However, with this specification, it could be easier to work on plugins for other apps, especially if it doesn't work out with Poser.

Quote - But it isn't, for a good reason. And that reason has nothing to do with what it can do, or even how many people want it. It is a business decision not to support it because it is proprietary.

 

 

It's about as proprietary as SM stuff... you know like charging DAZ to add their characters to faceroom or is the reason why the files daz does read are the ones that don't have to pay licensing fees for. So I think you got that wrong... at least DAZ did go to SM with the spec and didn't charge them and then published it publicly... so anyone can read the text files and implement it... doesn't sound proprietary to me.

Quote - People here are quick to say that SM should support it, that they can't afford not to.

Well, obviously that can afford not to, because they have not. And no one else has supported it either...

Well other generally if you're using higher end apps, you can usually make your own characters and content. ;) However, the initial thing they never followed up was to have it as a way to reduce costs for smaller businesses so they don't hire expensive contractors or artists to do the work. But I think they really wasted a lot of time on exporters and importers when they could have really marketed Genesis in this manner.