I think we are pretty much saying the same thing, I was just commenting on the end result as a customer, and you are talking about the mechanics of making that happen as a vendor. I do think it comes down to the corporate point of view of exactly what the company is trying to sell. DAZ isn't trying to sell a program so much as build the ecosystem to use it, and make their money from working with others to produce and sell content. Smith Micro is trying to sell as many units of Poser as they can, and aren't particularly interested in making money from content.

It's kind of short sighted, there are very few people who want to take the time and trouble to make their own content. Most of us are quite comfortable plunking down money for content and spend our time making pictures leaving content creation to those that are better and faster at it than we will ever be. The end result of Smith Micro's vision is that fewer and fewer new people take up their software which makes a smaller and smaller pool of prospective sales for vendors. Most of the people clamoring for Poser content have been using Poser a very long time.

Which brings us to the present situation I guess. But let's say someone comes up with a new stand-alone human figure for DAZ rather than Poser. Does anybody seriously think it would fair any better? Remember Dawn and Dusk had DAZ versions too. It isn't that there aren't any new human figures for Poser. The problem is Poser neither came up with a system of working with vendors to create an ecosystem where figures are extendable. Everything, no matter how good, dies from lack of community support. And that is what Smith-Micro needs to deal with, not a new feature list for their program if they want to reverse the decline.