Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe

Post by adamnemecek » Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 6:34 PM UTC

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The link should probably be changed to official announcement.[1] That said, this is pretty dismaying. I've been using Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo for years. Their standalone and non-subscription based apps are perfect for my usecase. Compared to Adobe, they are a no-brainer. But, I don't think Canva would leave them be as is. Either next versions will be a subscription or a rug pull is coming for the existin…

of course. big corporations only think about profit. affinity as we know it are dead.

Post by matwood » Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 6:36 PM UTC

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Yes, and let me explain why. Subscriptions are significantly better for a company. They result in a steady income and a predictable growth curve. It's so much easier to plan the upcoming years if you can predict the income. While we all focus on the latest news, the leaders of those companies already planned their next 10 steps ahead, even taking into account our sentiment towards them. Remember that they aim to maxi…

I feel like they could have a sustainable model if they had a more expensive one-time purchase and every few years released a new major version that required a one-time purchase again. If you bought the old version you can continue to use it, but it's no longer officially supported nor will it receive any future updates. I wish there was an option for this with e.g. Photoshop. I want to have PS because it's occasiona…

Post by ipaddr » Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 6:45 PM UTC

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Telling their students to avoid locking down their works inside a subscription-based service is good imo.

It's good advice sure. But downgrading their work, no. Unless you have explicit requirements that aren't met like your text being selectable, downgrading work because you have a prejudice against an authoring tool isn't cool. What if another educator has an issue with Power Point, and another with Sheets. Should students have to match their authoring tool with their educators for each lesson? Students are there to le…

Post by pembrook » Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 7:21 PM UTC

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Apparently most of the market doesn’t want the same things you want. Otherwise Affinity would be the giant acquiring a much smaller Canva team. That said, this is also further proof of why the standalone software license model died. If Affinity had a great business of their own, they wouldn’t need to sell. Turns out if you want a software team to continue providing value to you, you should probably put them on salary…

> If Affinity had a great business of their own, they wouldn’t need to sell. They don't need to. They mentioned that in their FAQ: > We have to say that selling Serif was not on our minds at all, but when Canva contacted us (only a couple of months ago!) there was something about it which just felt right.

Post by hbn » Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 7:31 PM UTC

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I feel like they could have a sustainable model if they had a more expensive one-time purchase and every few years released a new major version that required a one-time purchase again. If you bought the old version you can continue to use it, but it's no longer officially supported nor will it receive any future updates. I wish there was an option for this with e.g. Photoshop. I want to have PS because it's occasiona…

> I feel like they could have a sustainable model if they had a more expensive one-time purchase and every few years released a new major version that required a one-time purchase again. And people complain about this also. If everyone is going to complain anyway, they might as well go to subscription which is best for the business.