Quote - I'm confused about this..Not to start a war, but If SM only focused on developing software and Daz only figure content, then why does Daz Studio (for FREE) have more useful features like edge creasing, CC Sub-D and proper scaling and smoothing collision and better tools for character creation and support? Features that actually improve a characters usage? Who cares about dynamic cloth, its used by a very small percentage anyways.

That's your opinion.  (And apparently DAZ cares about dynamic cloth, since they have their own version.  ;-)

Now, it may be that SM is just dumb and refusing to do the sensible thing.  But I'm guessing that they actually know their customer, and what their customer wants.  And we who hang out at DAZ and Rosity are not their main customer.  They're happy to take our money, of course, and even willing to throw us a bone or three, but we're not their main customer.

When I see Poser images and animations out in the real world, it's almost always ordinary people wearing contemporary clothing.  Not improbably endowed people wearing brass underwear and wielding archaic weapons.  I'm guessing that's why the default Poser people are fairly generic and come with normal streetwear.  Again, maybe SM just doesn't know their customer base...but judging from the content they offer with Poser, I'd say their average customer is not DAZ's average customer.  They are aiming for different markets.