Feels uncessary. Figma could have IPO with no issue. They are well ahead of Adobe. Very dissapointed by this to be honest. Their Monoply continues.
Adobe acquires Figma
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#12I don't really get why a company wants to be acquired if they're already best in their class and therefore will be raking in money for the foreseeable future. Don't they get a big payout either way?
It depends on what you want out of life.
They now have cachet/reputation, and deeper pockets, and can easily start up and get funding for anything they might want to do.
Just making a slow, healthy profit with a company might not be enough for them.
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#13So, what's our alternatives? As others, I'm both pessimistic about the future and increasingly anti-Adobe (last thing I liked from them was non-subscription Framemaker and maybe PS 5.5). Penpot? https://penpot.app/
Affinity has a suite that is pretty nice (not affiliated with them, just like the tools and didn’t want to pay a subscription for my rather occassional use).
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#14> Adobe is deeply committed to keeping Figma operating autonomously
What an 'incredible journey' for Figma.
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#15So, what's our alternatives? As others, I'm both pessimistic about the future and increasingly anti-Adobe (last thing I liked from them was non-subscription Framemaker and maybe PS 5.5). Penpot? https://penpot.app/
Affinity has a suite that is pretty nice (not affiliated with them, just like the tools and didn’t want to pay a subscription for my rather occassional use).
Oh, sorry, I meant as an alternative to Figma, not the Adobe Suite itself.
But yeah, I dabbled a bit with Affinity Designer. It is quite focused on the "PageMaker" side of things, i.e. not for medium to large documents (IIRC still no support for footnotes, multi-column mode being a bit manual etc.)
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#16I don't really get why a company wants to be acquired if they're already best in their class and therefore will be raking in money for the foreseeable future. Don't they get a big payout either way?
It depends on what you want out of life. They now have cachet/reputation, and deeper pockets, and can easily start up and get funding for anything they might want to do. Just making a slow, healthy profit with a company might not be enough for them.
I feel you there. Sticking around long-term may also not be sustainable for everyone.
It takes a lot of energy (to wade through the ups-and-downs) as even running a co in a "profitable" situation isn't always as rosy as one hopes it to be. There are lawsuits, internal politics, competitive drama, etc.
Cashing out allows one to regain some headspace, take care of family or address other personal matters that need attention (or have been inducing some strain) and finance the next idea that one may have had on their minds.
Furthermore, things tend to get more corporate-ish as orgs grow because more structure is needed/required and this may not fit every personality type very well, so I guess builders will do themselves a service to hop out once the train shifts into a different gear to allow folks that are better at that game to take it from there.
Just hope that Adobe doesn't end up ruining things because I feel that is usually the issue with acquisitions. The buyer just dulls things down or they actively kill to push one of their overlapping overrings.
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#17Before criticizing Dylan, step in his shoes. These are $20 billion we are talking about. With his creativity, he might very well revolutionise a similar or another industry.
Let's be optimistic here. There are alternatives (Penpot) for the rest.
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#18I'm looking for Figma alternative on Product Hunt and found this guy (https://visily.ai/) XD