"Apollo is older than M4.

I don't know how true it is, but I've heard that both DAZ and SM (e-frontier at the time) offered to buy Apollo from his creator, which shows how well liked his design was."

Hi Shane,.. not true
 
I was around back then
Feel free to undertake a tedious archeological excavation of the forum archives to see for yourself.. if so inclined.

DAZ vendor/Artist&The creator of ApolloMax (Anton Kiselle) was the first AFAIK to publicly announce here  that DAZ was developing it's own
"figure posing and rendering program"

He also naturally seemed to assume that his new $90 USD Apollo Max Figure was Going to be the Default DAZ Male going forward.

DAZ had other plans in the form of the newly released Millenium man 3, AKA "Mike 3"

Anton took it very personally and undertook a very public and ugly "Divorce" from DAZ inc. using these forums here as his primary platform to Attack his Arch Enemy( Daz)

Long story ,short... he ( and his dedicated band of loyalists) then went on to alienate EVERY major poser content outlet with gratuitous assertions nearly any new figure tech was "stolen" from Apollo Max from V4 to the ill fated "Clarke" male Figure by Artist "Shahara" (IIRC)

Even after his melodramatic self imposed "Exile"
you still found remaining loyalists putting forth ridiculous theories here implying that DAZ M4 was result of a retopo /shrink wrap modifier
pirating of Apollo.

Apollo was a decent Figure in his day but had many flaws
( such as a complete lack of anatomically correct muscle definition)

But  in reality he( Apollo) was a victim of an EXTREME Case of the bizarre phenomenon displayed so often here that results in locked/Deleted threads

An Emotional attachment to a figure/program that closely resembles
the nationalists/ tribal/ religous/ extremism that is causing all the turmoil in the real world today.

 

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