I know for a fact that DAZ3D have approached Smith Micro a number of times to help integrate the genesis figures into Poser natively, only to be flatly refused. Why is this not something being seriously looked at by Smith Micro? The fastest way to change from industry leader to yesterday's hero is to lose touch with your market. Why would Smith Micro refuse to help integrate content from the largest content provider in the market? Seems self defeating.

Oh, that one is simple.....because DAZ updates DS constantly.  And when they do, they break their OWN addons, much less 3rd party addons. Just keeping up with DAZ breaking addons would mean Poser would never be updated again as their programmers would be doing nothing but keeping up with broken addons.

I'm talking about content support not addons. They are very different beasts.

You seemed to have missed the most important part of that post too btw.

What are the strengths of Poser, what does it do better then it's competition? Clearly it's not broad content support for whatever reason that is.

What would you say it's strengths are?

Oh, please........the DSON importer is an addon. As for your other questions, I have no intention of discussing "the competition" on a Poser wishlist thread.

Now that I think about it, how about explaining why DAZ can't make their figures POSER compatible? 

Hivewire makes Poser and DS with every one of their products, so it's clearly easily done.

Two versions is not the same figure. Otherwise making supporting content would not require two versions. DAZ 3D did make their figures Poser compatible by making the DSON importer for Poser plug-in for Poser. Same figure, same content.

Is the plug-in ideal? No.

Could it be better? Sure, if Smith Micro wrote it instead of someone else having to go through the Python interface.