As a current software engineer at Adobe, I was really disappointed when I got the internal email announcing this this morning. It's reminiscent of Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior in the early 00s. Figma is the better product and Adobe knows it - but instead of using that to light a fire under them and work harder to create a better product, Adobe just used its deep pockets to make the problem go away. I was alre…
What a weird way of looking at things. Microsoft bought Powerpoint, bought Excel basically too. There wouldn't be an Office suite otherwise. Google bought Keyhole, there wouldn't be a Google Maps otherwise. Google bought Youtube. They couldn't win with Google Video. Google bought Android. etc etc etc This is how the industry works. In general.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#1001Are these examples supposed to be arguing for the purchase? Lol.