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Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

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Re: Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

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Post by ctippett »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #15
mortenjorck wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sketch lost the market to Figma, and now Figma is losing the market to vibe coding. I'm not sure what the value proposition of Sketch is these days apart from local, non-cloud editing (although you can even get that with a pretty decent UI these days with Lunacy).

Vector screen-destined assets. Illustrator is print-centric and awkward for the use case, and while Photoshop is technically capable of it that's not what it's made for (also, Adobe CC is just way too bloated for its own good). Figma is oriented around mockups and not as good for assets. There are also platforms which are less vibe-friendly, and old style mockups can still be useful when nailing down a design system…

Surely you've got Photoshop (raster) and Illustrator (vector) mixed up?

Re: Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

ctippett wrote: post #41
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vector screen-destined assets. Illustrator is print-centric and awkward for the use case, and while Photoshop is technically capable of it that's not what it's made for (also, Adobe CC is just way too bloated for its own good). Figma is oriented around mockups and not as good for assets. There are also platforms which are less vibe-friendly, and old style mockups can still be useful when nailing down a design system…

Surely you've got Photoshop (raster) and Illustrator (vector) mixed up?

Nope. A lot of people use Photoshop for vector screen-destined graphics, because even though it's raster-dominant, it's reasonably capable of vector too. Illustrator is vector-dominant, but as noted, it's aimed mainly at print-destined vector graphics.

Re: Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

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Post by Reason077 »

cyclopeanutopia wrote: post #33
TeMPOraL wrote: post #26

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A person from Poland here: why does the country matter here? What are the implications you're implying?

> This role is based in our new office in Bielsko-Biala, Poland. Out of all the places in Poland, this choice is pretty strange. :)

Apple’s head office for all of Europe is located in Cork, Ireland. They are not averse to building offices in places you might not expect.

It’s not some “paper HQ” for tax purposes, either - they have over 6000 employees there and are easily the largest private employer in Cork.

Re: Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

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Post by CharlesW »

whyenot wrote: post #36

Bring. Back. Aperture!!! Yes there are alternative to Lightroom out there (Capture One, for example), but Aperture was so Mac native and was such a joy to use on OS X.

Aperture (RIP) is never coming back, but many of us Aperature fans have been happily using Nitro¹, built by the guy who led Aperture and other imaging teams at Apple².

¹ https://www.gentlemencoders.com/nitro-for-macos/index.html ² https://www.gentlemencoders.com/about/

Re: Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

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Post by ctippett »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #42
ctippett wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely you've got Photoshop (raster) and Illustrator (vector) mixed up?

Nope. A lot of people use Photoshop for vector screen-destined graphics, because even though it's raster-dominant, it's reasonably capable of vector too. Illustrator is vector-dominant, but as noted, it's aimed mainly at print-destined vector graphics.

I stand corrected then. It's been over a decade since I last used Photoshop, so my familiarity with its capabilities are obviously well out of date, I never would've considered it for any sort of vector-based work.

Re: Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

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Post by lll-o-lll »

Reason077 wrote: post #43
cyclopeanutopia wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This role is based in our new office in Bielsko-Biala, Poland. Out of all the places in Poland, this choice is pretty strange. :)

Apple’s head office for all of Europe is located in Cork, Ireland. They are not averse to building offices in places you might not expect. It’s not some “paper HQ” for tax purposes, either - they have over 6000 employees there and are easily the largest private employer in Cork.

It’s not a paper HQ, but it is for tax purposes.

Re: Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

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Post by ctippett »

flkiwi wrote: post #31

The Creator Studio is a pretty big miss for Apple. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote have always been productivity apps, not creativity apps (and there is a difference). Of the remaining apps, Pixelmator Pro is the only one that is remotely relevant to my needs, and I'm not subscribing to a $12.99/mo plan just for Pixelmator. Compared to $19.99/mo cost for a much more coherent set of Adobe photography and imagery tools, it…

It's not bad value at AUD$4.99 per month (education pricing). I only really use it for Final Cut Pro though.

Re: Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

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Post by tomhow »

Andrex wrote: post #38
TeMPOraL wrote: post #26

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A person from Poland here: why does the country matter here? What are the implications you're implying?

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Please don't post unsubstantive comments like this on HN. You've been here long enough to know we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

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Post by cyclopeanutopia »

Reason077 wrote: post #43
cyclopeanutopia wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This role is based in our new office in Bielsko-Biala, Poland. Out of all the places in Poland, this choice is pretty strange. :)

Apple’s head office for all of Europe is located in Cork, Ireland. They are not averse to building offices in places you might not expect. It’s not some “paper HQ” for tax purposes, either - they have over 6000 employees there and are easily the largest private employer in Cork.

Ok, it is comparable.
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