People have been predicting the demise of Poser since at least Dec 2004 that I am personally aware of. Poser has outlasted multiple software houses and keeps on trucking. Poser isn't what drives the Profit/Loss statements at Smith Micro. The entire graphics division covers about 10% of the company's revenue. It's a "hobby" for them.

Folks don't seem to grasp is that DS & Poser have different business models. Daz puts all of their new tech into the characters - Poser puts the tech in the program.

This means that as a Poser user, we can use the figure we like; we can quickly & easily update a legacy figure. That isn't an option on the other platform. Think the facial bones in the G3 figures are neat? In Poser, one can easily add an equivalent (control surfaces) to any figure that doesn't have them. I've added them to my g1 & g2 figures, something that one can't do on the other platform. The 1st weight mapped figure that worked in Cararra wasn't a Daz figure, it was a SM figure (Alyson 2).

Poser figures are designed to show off the new technology in the Poser application; they aren't designed to do pin-up art (Although they certainly can do that). That is why we see the Poser figures in things like TV production, airline safety cards, and scanners at the local grocery store.

The hobbyist vendors love the g figures, because DS users buy the same products over and over. If they want the alleged greatest tech in the latest figure, they have to. It is a lot less work for vendors and most of the costs are already sunk. Some content for g3 was made originally for P6 Jesse & Miki 1020 - I know, because I have those original products.

As a Poser user, nearly everything can be grist for the mill. Wanna move clothing content from 1 figure to another - you have multiple ways of doing it. Wanna move hair from 1 figure to another? Add-ons are available. Found the perfect skin texture, but it was made for another figure? You can move it.

I could drop $18 - 25 bucks on each outfit for a new figure, or I can simply spend a few minutes of my time - and spend that money elsewhere - in my case, on content I don't already own for a new figure - which tends to be shoes. Shoes are the one thing that still has a fairly complex conversion process. Still can be done, but isn't at the 1 - 3 click steps everything else is.

Poser's future is bright - we're just hanging out waiting on Project E to arrive.