There’s no escaping that whatever money Apple makes from this will be a rounding error compared to iPhone / iOS revenue. I honestly think the apps would be better served to be sold to a smaller company where such revenue was a bigger piece of their pie and they were therefore incentivized to care about them.
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#22I much prefer the interface of Pixelmator and Pages to Photoshop and InDesign, and paying once (for the non-AI-augmented version of Pixelmator, which Apple indicate will continue to receive some manner of updates going forward) is a nice plus. It’s unfortunate there’s not a real Illustrator equivalent; Pixelmator has okay enough vector editing and export support for my needs, but notably will render the canvas raster…
I feel like there had to have been some appetite within Apple to acquire serif (the Affinity suite of apps, Affinity Designer being a great Illustrator alternative) before Canva did because they were making non-kneecapped iPad apps, getting demos/mentions at Apple events, and just generally seeming like a good fit from the outside. (Other than being a non-Apple-technology cross-platform suite)
I can’t say that would’ve been a perfect outcome all things considered, but Apple certainly would’ve had a well rounded creative suite.
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#23Apple should buy Sketch
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).
Doesn't Apple already have a loose competitor to Figma? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeform_%28Apple%29
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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).
Doesn't Apple already have a loose competitor to Figma? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeform_%28Apple%29
Not really. Freeform is more of a whiteboarding/brainstorming app. It might be ok for rough wireframes but isn't suitable for high fidelity mockups, asset creation, etc.
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#26A single job posting for an engagement team doesn't really tell you if its a company strategy or not. Directors hire on random ideas all the time and then pivot as needed
>A single job posting for an engagement team A single job posting for an engagement team in Poland.
A person from Poland here: why does the country matter here? What are the implications you're implying?
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>A single job posting for an engagement team A single job posting for an engagement team in Poland.
A person from Poland here: why does the country matter here? What are the implications you're implying?
I'm not the person you asked, but I don't think where it is matters as much as where it isn't. It isn't at Apples headquarters.
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>A single job posting for an engagement team A single job posting for an engagement team in Poland.
A person from Poland here: why does the country matter here? What are the implications you're implying?
I think the OP is trying to say if it was in Cupertino, it would be more of an event.
Just like Amazon posting for this position in Phoenix wouldn't be seen the same way as Seattle.
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>A single job posting for an engagement team A single job posting for an engagement team in Poland.
A person from Poland here: why does the country matter here? What are the implications you're implying?
It's a long way from their headquarters, a massive time zone difference at least. I don't think they're working on something that needs the direct attention of leadership.
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#30There’s no escaping that whatever money Apple makes from this will be a rounding error compared to iPhone / iOS revenue. I honestly think the apps would be better served to be sold to a smaller company where such revenue was a bigger piece of their pie and they were therefore incentivized to care about them.
There’s no escaping that whatever money Apple makes from this will be a rounding error compared to iPhone / iOS revenue.
I can't even imagine what it would be like to work in an Apple-sized rounding error.