"There is a difference between app sales and content sales. I am focusing on content. If Carrara content sold more, there would be more people making for it and it would be supported more."

The whole point is that Carrara users don't only purchase 'Carrara' specific content.  Carrara natively uses 99% of Poser and Studio content as well.   Yes, there is also Carrara-only content (like Howie Farke's nature scenes which are so reknowned), but for the average Carrara user the vast majority of content we purchase is content made for use in Studio or in Poser.

 Would it surprise you to learn that I've purchased several products from your Daz store, yet I never ever ever use Studio for anything?  This is because Carrara can natively use both Genesis1 and Genesis2 (although most of the stuff I've bought from you were shaping morphs for Genesis1, if I start using Genesis2 more seriously then I might very well purchase stuff like Shape Shift and Growing up and Aging morphs for G2m and G2f.

But you know what's never ever going to be on the menu for me if Daz doesn't take the time to make Genesis3 compatible with Carrara?  Any product you make that is for Genesis3.

Yes, Carrara as an application does cost money, and yes Daz does make some money from each Carrara 8.5 sale, (which is more than the $0 that Daz makes from those who use Studio), but this is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of money I spend on content.  I went ahead and totaled it up, and it made me vaguely sick to my stomach to realize how much money I've spent at Daz over the last few years since I started doing this hobby ( $5,931.22 USD for me at the Daz site, and I know I've spent much more than that here at Rendo as I purchase from Rendo much more frequently).  And yet according to the statistics that are appearing over in that thread, I don't have nearly as much content purchases as many of the other Carrara users; I'm not an anomaly, in fact many Carrara users spend more than I do on content.

 The whole point is to make sure Daz understands  that Carrara users do buy content, a lot of it, and not simply Carrara-specific content only.  For a Carrara user, Daz makes money from a) the Carrara application sale, b) any Carrara-specific content we might buy, and c) the massive amount of Poser and Studio content we purchase and use in Carrara.  We're trying to shine a statistical spotlight on the fact that c) is the largest by far segment of our spending.