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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

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Post by phinnaeus »

omnimus wrote: post #77
phinnaeus wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Photoshop and Illustrator are surely a vast majority of Adobe product usage. What would be #3? Premiere? Lightroom? Actually I take it back, Acrobat is probably #1

Indesign is the main graphic software after Photoshop. Basically anything that gets printed uses Indesign. Photoshop is more well known because people love photography as a hobby but in professional print setting photos are just smaller component.

Affinity has an InDesign competitor, so this would seem to be a point in favor of the argument for Affinity being able to compete with Adobe if InDesign is in the top 3 Adobe products.

Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

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Post by rcarmo »

Oh boy. I willingly gave my money to Affinity because I don’t want a subscription model, I don’t want my creative apps to rely on the cloud _at all_ to work _and_ I want native Mac apps. I am not reassured by their FAQ at all.

I suspect a year from now Canva will break at least one (if not all three) of these features and force me to leave Affinity by version 3.

It would be extremely ironic if Gimp was the only graphics app left standing I could use without all of the above nonsense (well, I am happy to keep supporting Pixelmator, but… you get the idea).

Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

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Post by earthnail »

lstamour wrote: post #32
yaomtc wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Davinci Resolve is on par with Premiere. Quark XPress is a great replacement for InDesign. No need to rely on one company for every type of multimedia software.

Have you actually used the products you’re recommending and the Adobe equivalents? I would say that InDesign easily won over then industry-standard Quark nearly two decades ago, and Resolve is okay but not great at most things. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of Resolve and its pricing, but like Affinity, it’s not quite on par with the features of Adobe’s products. I’m routinely frustrated by missing features. I have c…

I think Davinci is great. What are you missing?

Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

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Post by achow »

GrumpySloth wrote: post #87

This is very sad. I’ve been an Affinity customer since V1. What I expect to happen now is in some future a move to a subscription-based model and more focus on nonsense AI features and some useless cloud integration. Also: since when a company capable of routinely acquiring other established companies for tens of billions of dollars a startup?

> since when a company capable of routinely acquiring other established companies for tens of billions of dollars a startup

The acquisition was for “several hundred million pounds”, nowhere near tens of billions of dollars.

Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

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Post by [deleted] »

achow wrote: post #95
GrumpySloth wrote: post #87

This is very sad. I’ve been an Affinity customer since V1. What I expect to happen now is in some future a move to a subscription-based model and more focus on nonsense AI features and some useless cloud integration. Also: since when a company capable of routinely acquiring other established companies for tens of billions of dollars a startup?

> since when a company capable of routinely acquiring other established companies for tens of billions of dollars a startup The acquisition was for “several hundred million pounds”, nowhere near tens of billions of dollars.

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Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

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Post by prox »

ireadmevs wrote: post #56
zubspace wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Inkscape is quite good actually. But GIMP is lightyears away from ever being in the same league. We need an open source Photoshop and Publisher program.

Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

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Post by wdb »

lstamour wrote: post #32
yaomtc wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Davinci Resolve is on par with Premiere. Quark XPress is a great replacement for InDesign. No need to rely on one company for every type of multimedia software.

Have you actually used the products you’re recommending and the Adobe equivalents? I would say that InDesign easily won over then industry-standard Quark nearly two decades ago, and Resolve is okay but not great at most things. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of Resolve and its pricing, but like Affinity, it’s not quite on par with the features of Adobe’s products. I’m routinely frustrated by missing features. I have c…

Resolve is so much better than Premiere. Resolve doesn’t crash half the time

Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

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Post by cangeroo »

Daub wrote: post #31

This 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're a great educator!

I'm surprised that other people here cannot separate their subjective opinions, whether they agree with your judgment, from fact, whether you're a good educator.

It would be more reasonable to say: A good educator would help students understand that PDF files should have a small file size, and if a student fails to notice that, you will have to downgrade them for lack of attention to important detail.

And, of course the acquisition is bad news. Americans are the only people I've encountered that seem to celebrate the dystopian monopolized unfree market that we're headed towards.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if Canva has people to distort social media to downvote anyone who disagrees with them, as other companies do.

Re: Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

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Post by bayindirh »

pier25 wrote: post #20
freedomben wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The only reason people get Affinity is because of the non subscription model. Adobe software is just better.

> Adobe software is just better.

I won't be installing that invasive spyware suite to my system even if they pay me monthly to use the software. It's that bad.

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