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Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Post by jhdias »

awwstn wrote: post #220
madeofpalk wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, Testflight has a pretty good acquisition story. It got "merged into main" and is now a first class citizen of the iOS development ecosystem. Workflow being acquired and turning into Shortcuts is a pretty successful outcome IMHO. Beats still continues to make slightly cheaper headphones. FoundationDB is still there. Apart from Dark Sky, what other products with users has Apple acquired and shut down…

Shazam is a huge success story!

In what way, specifically for android users?

Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

999900000999 wrote: post #50
pier25 wrote: post #12

Very interesting move. Adobe must be trembling. Lots of people have already left Premiere and AE for Resolve. If Apple offers Photoshop and Illustrator alternatives it will remove the need to pay for the Adobe subscription for a lot of Mac users (that will probably be the case for me).

Adobe is at a weird place. I'm grandfathered in with a 30$ a month deal. I rarely use Photoshop/Lightroom and the PDF editor. If I had to pay the full 60$ a month I'd cancel.

How are you grandfathered? Fake student ID?

Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Post by saaaaaam »

999900000999 wrote: post #50
pier25 wrote: post #12

Very interesting move. Adobe must be trembling. Lots of people have already left Premiere and AE for Resolve. If Apple offers Photoshop and Illustrator alternatives it will remove the need to pay for the Adobe subscription for a lot of Mac users (that will probably be the case for me).

Adobe is at a weird place. I'm grandfathered in with a 30$ a month deal. I rarely use Photoshop/Lightroom and the PDF editor. If I had to pay the full 60$ a month I'd cancel.

Every time they try to bump me up to a higher plan I tell them that I don't need it any more and it's too expensive and they give me stupid deals. I think currently I'm paying $25 a month but they refunded me the first month where I accidentally lapsed back onto the "real" pricing, and gave me the next four months for free. So basically $175 for the year. I'll probably cancel it next time it comes up though, I basically only use it for complicated PDF stuff, and I'm sure I can find something else to do that.

Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Post by dreamcompiler »

lowkey_ wrote: post #81

I'd never heard of Pixelmator before (congrats to them on the exit), and: WOW their website already looks like an Apple website. The colors, the font, the logo with the same colors as Apple Photos, all the images that show a Mac window, the shade of red in the top right, the "machine learning" section that almost looks like Notes, and I scrolled down and it's all about how great Mac is. It seemed inevitable that Appl…

Pixelmator has also been app store-only, and I prefer Mac apps that are downloadable from the company's website. This is probably another example of them posturing themselves for acquisition by Apple.

It's also the reason I use the Affinity suite rather than Pixelmator.

Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Post by saaaaaam »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #223
999900000999 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adobe is at a weird place. I'm grandfathered in with a 30$ a month deal. I rarely use Photoshop/Lightroom and the PDF editor. If I had to pay the full 60$ a month I'd cancel.

How are you grandfathered? Fake student ID?

You just tell them that you don't find it valuable and if you've been a customer for long enough they will bend over backwards to keep you. I used to buy several copies of CS3 and CS4 back when they came on DVD and I'm still using the same account, and moved to subscriptions with three seats as soon as they came in. So my LTV is probably fairly compared to a normal "consumer" account where they've only ever subscribed. Obviously compared to an enterprise account it's nothing, but if you're buying enterprise licensing I imagine you're getting it for less than $30 per seat per month.

Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Post by 999900000999 »

saaaaaam wrote: post #224
999900000999 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adobe is at a weird place. I'm grandfathered in with a 30$ a month deal. I rarely use Photoshop/Lightroom and the PDF editor. If I had to pay the full 60$ a month I'd cancel.

Every time they try to bump me up to a higher plan I tell them that I don't need it any more and it's too expensive and they give me stupid deals. I think currently I'm paying $25 a month but they refunded me the first month where I accidentally lapsed back onto the "real" pricing, and gave me the next four months for free. So basically $175 for the year. I'll probably cancel it next time it comes up though, I basica…

This is basically it, just complain and they'll cut you a deal.

Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Post by saaaaaam »

cyberpunk wrote: post #24
talldayo wrote: post #14

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> Adobe must be trembling. Adobe is probably popping open a champagne for every cross-platform Creative Cloud competitor that gets mothballed with Apple's capital. If Microsoft acquired Affinity next, the Adobe offices would look like a disco ball for a week.

I’ve never seen a graphics person using a windows machine in all my years in tech… Maybe I’m in some sort of bubble.

"graphics people" aren't the core people using Adobe's products though. As evidenced by the terrible designs people keep cranking out using photoshop. And by the huge market for terrible-design-by-numbers Canva.com

Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Post by dwaite »

whamlastxmas wrote: post #137
blihp wrote: post #110

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The talent and ideas that were Pixelmator will be substantially diffused as it's absorbed by Apple... most of what you liked about Pixelmator is likely no more over the next year or two. Depending on Apple's reasoning for the acquisition (i.e. how much of it was just for the talent vs the product) you'll may see some small glimpses of Pixelmator's influence a couple years from now in Apple's stuff. Most of the time A…

I don’t understand why companies buy other companies for the talent and not product. Why not just make everyone working there an incredible offer at the same time? It would cost so so so much less than these massive buy outs. Maybe not all of them would take you up on it, but if you buy the company a lot of them may not stick around post-buyout anyway. I feel like this would be a lot more effective also because in a…

Sometimes that does happen.

Apple historically tends to look for shipping results, and the underlying software and services (such as using DarkSky's algorithms and server code as starting points) are often worth it over just putting offers out to key people.

This obviously isn't always true; they do have some longer-term research projects and strategic initiatives we've seen leak out (cars and non-invasive blood glucose monitoring are common mentioned ones), but I think Apple generally would prefer to let others succeed or fail in the research.

There's nothing _to_ Pixelmator IMHO other than the product. Apple knows how to do sepia tone filters already.

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