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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 drivingmenuts »

xoa wrote: post #161

While Affinity is a one-time purchase, I'll admit I was very, very disappointed when with the last version they switched from a normal product key to online-only activation requirement which was not at all clear at purchase time. So despite having purchased the whole v2 suite I ended up never using it and staying with v1, and their response was pretty junk as well. That said, I share concerns of other posters that th…

It's the usual CEO claptrap before they decimate the company.

1. Acquire company

2. ???

3. Fire developers until profitable without doing actual work

4. Raise CEO Salary

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

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Post by a2800276 »

andy_ppp wrote: post #195
bogota wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have to extract the most value for shareholders. Only way i see it changing is people start stealing software because they get sick of it or people stop using subscription based licenses all together.

I absolutely hate it too. I think we all need a subscriptions manager. Adobe for example were charging me $15 per month for Lightroom forever and Lightroom had broken and deleted all my photos years before. I think there was a problem with their software because I did not have a subscription that I could see when I logged in to any of the accounts I had. I just gave up at some point trying to cancel (I'd even talked…

Registered mail to Adobe?

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

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Post by upsuper »

pembrook wrote: post #188
soapdog wrote: post #125

Why every product I like ends up being bought... argh, we can't have nice things.

Apparently most of the market doesn’t want the same things you want. Otherwise Affinity would be the giant acquiring a much smaller Canva team. That said, this is also further proof of why the standalone software license model died. If Affinity had a great business of their own, they wouldn’t need to sell. Turns out if you want a software team to continue providing value to you, you should probably put them on salary…

> If Affinity had a great business of their own, they wouldn’t need to sell.

They don't need to. They mentioned that in their FAQ:

> We have to say that selling Serif was not on our minds at all, but when Canva contacted us (only a couple of months ago!) there was something about it which just felt right.

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

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Post by browningstreet »

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.

But the subscription based company was the one to buy the non-subscription company. Because they generate the funds to do so.

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Post by jwells89 »

hresvelgr wrote: post #81

In light of this, I can't help but feel the OSS alternatives to the Adobe graphics suite are pretty abysmal. Inkscape is passable but aspects like filters are obtuse to use and that's largely because it's trying to be a good compliant SVG editor and not necessarily a good vector graphics editor. GIMP's user experience in my opinion has been terrible for decades and every time I have given it a chance it's annoyed me…

Personally speaking I’ve always found Inkscape frustrating compared to Sketch or Affinity Designer, but it’s in a different way than GIMP is. GIMP I think would mostly be fine if they just ditched all the quirky GIMP-unique UI conventions in favor of more commonplace counterparts (which in some cases is as “easy” as using standard GTK widgets instead of custom stuff) but who knows when or if that’ll happen.

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

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Post by upsuper »

jsjohnst wrote: post #150

Looking at Canva’s pricing page makes me glad I have a perpetual license to Affinity’s products. Now the question is, will I ever get any updates to Photo/Design/Publisher? I don’t need new features, but I do care about bug fixes and such.

> Now the question is, will I ever get any updates to Photo/Design/Publisher?

They answered the question in their FAQ:

> Will my Affinity apps still get updates?

> Yes! We have many free updates planned for V2, with a continued focus on improvements and the features you ask for.

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Post by rchaud »

lovegrenoble wrote: post #175
rchaud wrote: post #151

I have Affinity Designer and Publisher, which I've used to design and publish a music fanzine: https://www.glidermag.com This is slightly worrying news as Canva is the opposite of the Affinity suite: cloud-only and subscription-based. I could purchase brush sets on Affinity for a fixed price, and many were made available on the user messageboard for free.

Ce site est inaccessible Vérifiez si l'adresse glidermag.com est correcte. can't access

Updated the URL!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

neurostimulant wrote: post #134
goralph wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t sound like a good educator. Perhaps withhold your personal and subjective gripes for the sake of your students

Telling their students to avoid locking down their works inside a subscription-based service is good imo.

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

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Post by rchaud »

lambdas wrote: post #177
rchaud wrote: post #151

I have Affinity Designer and Publisher, which I've used to design and publish a music fanzine: https://www.glidermag.com This is slightly worrying news as Canva is the opposite of the Affinity suite: cloud-only and subscription-based. I could purchase brush sets on Affinity for a fixed price, and many were made available on the user messageboard for free.

Looks like it isn’t routing it correctly without the `www.` https://www.glidermag.com/ Off topic, and if I may be so bold, check out Whitelands. They’re my friends band and they just toured with Slowdive, one to watch out for! (I am 100% biased though).

Just updated the link. I will check out Whitelands; I just saw Slowdive in November, they had Drab Majesty open for them in Canada.

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

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Post by srvmshr »

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.

I keep Adobe products only on iPad or iPhone, where the app seems sandboxed. In Mac/Windows, Adobe CC (or any product line FWIW) spawns files and folders like cancer in /Library or /System. It's just hallmark bad software engineering.
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