What can Pixelmator be possibly doing that Apple cannot?
Apple acquires Pixelmator
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Idk, Apple is just as likely to kill it.
Though way less likely to turn it into a cursed subscription zombie.
Leaving aside pricing specifics, the main issue with subscriptions is for products that you just fire up once in a great while. So long as the pricing is reasonable, I have no particular issue with subscriptions for products I use on a routine basis--especially if they're products that more or less require ongoing updates to remain useful.
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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…
I wish every acquisition improved the end product as much as Workflow's did. All Apple's OSes got better for embracing it. I can write and have written AppleScript things, but Shortcuts is a vastly more convenient UX for the things it's good at.
What do you use it for?
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#275This would be a great acquisition for Apple if they were to use the patents (if any) owned by Pixelmator and the team behind it to work on Apple's Photos app for the next year, now that Apple Intelligence is out in Beta.
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> Why not just make everyone working there an incredible offer at the same time? Under civil law this is regarded as tortious interference. Businesses have a contract with their employees and if you interfere with it to harm the employer then you are liable for damages. If you tried to make a mass offer like this, the employer could likely get a judge to place an injunction against it immediately. If they don’t notic…
I wonder what's the theory of harm behind such law. Employers competing over talent is... illegal? Explains a lot actually.
Step 1: make everyone an incredible offer
Step 2: get them all hired away from your competitor who is now out of business
Step 3: in a year or two, restructure all these people out (or just fire them if your jurisdiction allows)
Step 4: your competitor is gone, and all it cost was a year or two of salaries.
Seems like a great way to help out budding monopolies.
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In this way https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shazam.and...
For posterity: > 4.8 star / 10.5M reviews > 500M+ Downloads > No data shared with third parties
It (optionally) integrates with the Apple Music Android app now, and offers to add to your library there whenever you scan a song, so I assume it's a good funnel for them to get people into their service ecosystem.
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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…
Multiple reasons. That it does happen should be reason to question your assumptions, rather than assume some obvious imagined alternative has been overlooked by everyone, right? While poaching one employee at a time might be usually legal, attempting to poach all employees of a company might not be legal, and either way is considered unethical. Paying off the investors may be the goal. Eliminating the product or comp…
Unethical by whom? The now richer employees? Or the salty cheapskate?
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#280Adobe is going online as in Photoshop will be browser based in the future as they already have a beta version. The days you have an Adobe desktop app that sends data to the cloud will be over in probably 10yrs. Sure they will probably make an "local desktop app" the same way Figma does, but it won't be a true desktop app anymore.