What a shame. So far akamais purchase of linode haven’t bourne ill fruit. Time will tell
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
#52If they move Affinity to subscription, CorelDRAW is probably the only viable (commercial) graphic product left with a perpetual license. Apart from FOSS, of course.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#53If they move Affinity to subscription, CorelDRAW is probably the only viable (commercial) graphic product left with a perpetual license. Apart from FOSS, of course.
The thing I learnt about FOSS which gives me a long term advantage is that I have to learn to do things only once.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you downgrade a student based on the tool they use to create their presentations instead of the content itself?
Because they made a bad tool choice for their own convenience ? That leads here to big images and unselectable text, no accessibility.
Exactly: large files, ugly slides (I teach design) and impossible to select text.
The template driven nature on Canva also makes it really hard for them to learn multi page layouts and structured documentation.
The one thing in its favour is that it supports collaboration.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#55I 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…
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sad, but true
Yes, and let me explain why. Subscriptions are significantly better for a company. They result in a steady income and a predictable growth curve. It's so much easier to plan the upcoming years if you can predict the income. While we all focus on the latest news, the leaders of those companies already planned their next 10 steps ahead, even taking into account our sentiment towards them. Remember that they aim to maxi…
> And what are we to do, if most offerings are subscription based?
Support open source software
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sad, but true
Yes, and let me explain why. Subscriptions are significantly better for a company. They result in a steady income and a predictable growth curve. It's so much easier to plan the upcoming years if you can predict the income. While we all focus on the latest news, the leaders of those companies already planned their next 10 steps ahead, even taking into account our sentiment towards them. Remember that they aim to maxi…
We are doomed?
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#58I painfully switched to Affinity because of the rising Adobe subscription prices, I'd been a photoshop/illustrator user from the Dot com boom... I recall paying around 780 every two years for creative suite and given the hell I'd gone through by choosing Flex for a ERP project (Adobe's promises of iOS compatibility never materialising, then breaking compatibility - requiring a close-to-rewrite in their next version o…
Pixelmator is nice for tinkering, but in no way it compares to Adobe Ps/Ilustrator for professional use. Workflow you can learn but there are subtle bugs that just crop up here and there like freeform transform handles just disappearing on some backgrounds etc. Some of the design decisions are different enough so that I haven't still gotten used to them after two years because it just doesn't feel intuitive to me, e.g. every single time I mess up working with text tool for the first five minutes time until I recall how it works.
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#59This is bad news. The Affinity offers a genuine and very high class alternative to the Adobe suite. Its HDRI workflow is league ahead of anything else. As for Canva, all I can say is that I downgrade any student who makes their research slides using this dumb service. The slides are template-driven horror with each exported pdf slide being rasterized pngs: stupidly large files with text that is impossible to select a…
You don’t sound like a good educator. Perhaps withhold your personal and subjective gripes for the sake of your students
Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
#60Never heard about Canva. But checking them out they seem to focus on mobile apps and web apps to edit photos and videos. With a very specific focus on social media influencers. Don't be fooled by the cheeky templates and filters,they are going heavy on AI, with some interesting features such as inpainting and video background removal. I guess that's either a very lucrative business or they have a ton of VC money behi…
Yes, very lucrative with huge free cash flow. 60% YoY growth last year too