For all the passion vented here on both sides you would think they have an impact on what happens to any the companies.  As it stands SM is doing what it has always done and that is producing 3D software with some stunning features for a reasonable price and leaves the content to someone else.  If they are going to move away from that they certainly are not going to detail that move in the forums.

Daz on the other hand is owned by venture capitalist who make money by funding startups and other concerns, adding as much value as possible in as a short term as possible and then selling the company on.  

It really doesn't matter which side of the fence you are on, if indeed you are on any fence, the object is to make money and as much as possible.  Now we may all feel we have better ideas of how they could make that money but we come to it from a biased position of being, customers, users, vendors and artists and my guess is only the artists are reading, the bean counters certainly are not.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.