Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
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Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
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Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#2now they just need to train generative AI models by opting in all of their users to allow training in on their data and forcing them to opt-out if they want otherwise. To compete with adobe that is.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#3I know nothing about Canva. As someone who has been a big fan of Affinity, their products and their pricing model, do I start freaking out now or can I just wait until the acquisition closes?
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#4I don't know, products rarely get better with these acquisitions. I like my native app Affinity Designer, with a reasonable one time license very much as is.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#5A mistake, if you ask me. They can't compete with Adobe.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#6I know nothing about Canva. As someone who has been a big fan of Affinity, their products and their pricing model, do I start freaking out now or can I just wait until the acquisition closes?
Yeah, as someone that's been very happy with the Affinity Suite and am scared of any major changes to them, this is pretty scary to me, as well. Reminds me of when Jasc was bought by Corel waaaay back in the day.
Canva, if you're on HN, seeing how we're going to respond, please don't take away the stand-alone, non-subscription-based, affordable system that Affinity's products are. I love their products. I don't want to have to find alternatives.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#7I know nothing about Canva. As someone who has been a big fan of Affinity, their products and their pricing model, do I start freaking out now or can I just wait until the acquisition closes?
I enjoy Serif products but have always wondered how it would survive. Pixelmator stayed a family-run bootstrapped operation while Serif scaled a company in the EU around the Affinity Suite.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#8I know nothing about Canva. As someone who has been a big fan of Affinity, their products and their pricing model, do I start freaking out now or can I just wait until the acquisition closes?
Yeah, as someone that's been very happy with the Affinity Suite and am scared of any major changes to them, this is pretty scary to me, as well. Reminds me of when Jasc was bought by Corel waaaay back in the day. Canva, if you're on HN, seeing how we're going to respond, please don't take away the stand-alone, non-subscription-based, affordable system that Affinity's products are. I love their products. I don't want…
Hate to say it, but a subscription model is coming. Canva is making money hands over fist by doing that, and I can't imagine they are going to part from what has been so lucrative
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#9Canva is subscription based.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#10A mistake, if you ask me. They can't compete with Adobe.
Affinity can, though. I haven't touched Photoshop/Illustrator in years since I discovered Affinity.