WacR: it should be
Piem: for the bones, it's one of my first request about modeling (I mean bone as a deformer, not as an animation system). Everybody in the team is agree with that. We won't be able to add this feature in Amapi 8, because we already have a high priority on other stuff (improving the NURBS first! like improving chamfer results, booleans, thickness...)
isdnmodem: no, I don't think Amapi will kill Hex, for various reasons: Amapi is more expensive than Hexagon and Amapi is more targeting to the product design, even if you can model organics stuff with it. DAZ sold it to a lot of customers, and i'm sure a lot are happy with it.
We (all of us) don't know what will be the futur of Hexagon, then, let's see what DAZ will do with it (and stop flaming DAZ please, it means flamming Hex and then, flaming me!)