Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

Good for Figma founders, they'll make a lot of money, bad for Figma users and design authoring tool in general suffering from the lack of competition in the space for the last 25 years.

I've seen what happened to Macromedia products after Adobe bought them.

Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

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Post by rchaud » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 11:50 AM UTC

End of the line for Adobe XD if this happens?

I like Figma a lot, but I'm glad I have an old copy of Sketch to fall back on. Adobe and its forever subscription model will eventually get applied to Figma.

Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

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Post by helsinkiandrew » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 11:51 AM UTC

https://archive.ph/EawX9

Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

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Post by leetrout » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 11:53 AM UTC

throw_m239339 wrote: post #5

kgbcia wrote: post #4

good purchase.

Good for Figma founders, they'll make a lot of money, bad for Figma users and design authoring tool in general suffering from the lack of competition in the space for the last 25 years. I've seen what happened to Macromedia products after Adobe bought them.

Exactly

Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 11:54 AM UTC

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Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

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Post by cj » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 12:05 PM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #6

End of the line for Adobe XD if this happens? I like Figma a lot, but I'm glad I have an old copy of Sketch to fall back on. Adobe and its forever subscription model will eventually get applied to Figma.

> Adobe and its forever subscription model will eventually get applied to Figma.

Figma is already a “forever subscription”. It’s a SaaS subscription.