Am 21.12.2014 um 05:21 schrieb Patrick Elliott:

>> The thing is, SmithMicro is apparently making most of their money by
>> selling the Poser software, and they know that content-wise they have
>> tremendous allies in 3rd party shops, so they have no interest in
>> keeping their user base limited to the SmithMicro shop. Daz3D on the
>> other hand is obviously making most of their money by selling content,
>> so they have great interest in binding customers to /their/ shop alone,
>> which they do by making /their/ stuff install like a charm; and as far
>> as I'm concerned, this strategy works perfectly.
>>
> Except, in this case, they have pissed me off enough, since just
> installing their bloody program is such a pain, never mind something
> else, that I don't plan to buy any newer version. So.. yeah, real
> winning strategy there. At least, as Doctor John comments about
> Microsoft, *they* had people by the balls, since there just wasn't any
> other option but Windows, mostly. Smith Micro doesn't even have the lint
> from people's underwear to grab hold of.

They've lost me to Daz3D quite a while ago already. For me the thing 
was, in the end I'd buy 3rd party content anyway, so why buy a new piece 
of software every few years when I can get the competitor's product for 
free.

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