The biggest problem Smith Micro and Poser had was it is a publicly traded company and they can't make wild promises and not keep them. So what most of you here think was them not listening was that they can't engage in wild promises and then fail to deliver. Under Renderosity they can talk about anything they want promise the moon and never have to worry about whether it comes true or not.

One of the last questions asked by the old development team was whether anyone used Lux renderer. A lot of people told them basically hell no don't get rid of superfly they don't want to learn a new system. Looking at what the old old team did with making Superfly almost a drop in replacement for Firefly and the material room looked the same and it wasn't all that hard to make the changes to use the new nodes. With Open Shade and several of the free Render Engines using Open Shade it would not be too hard to make a lookup conversion system to translate Poser to Open Shade so it would be a snap to use which ever Renderer you wanted to do. Oh well.

There are two ways to do something fast and easy and slow and thoughtful. The fast way normally has to be done repeatedly and even if though it may not take much time per occurrence it usually takes more time in the long run then the slow and thoughtful method. Since most people want to appear to be busy and productive they won't take the time to learn newer/better methods which in the long run give them more time. As an example a job I had was to analyze manning levels and program in changes to ensure a proper balance for manning. Doing what the guy before me was doing it would take about 20 days to do it by hand. Which gave me about 2 days a month to learn a better way. By the time I left that job I was able to do the same report in under a day. Point being that by doing extra work at the beginning I was able to do more in a shorter time frame and therefore learn and do more.

Poser 5, 6, 7, 8, Poser Pro 9 (2012), 10 (2014), 11, 12, 13