I don’t believe this will be good for the market. I feel Adobe is doing this to kill a potential threat to their XD and other design tools.
Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
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Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#412I'm dismayed by this acquisition but glad to see the near-universal dislike towards Adobe in this thread. How can a $150B+ company exist with this much disdain for its business practices and products? I'm guessing Adobe's primary customer base is large corporations who don't care rather than individual users?
HackerNews represents just a part of the customers that use products like Adobe suite, so that's pretty normal that majority of people give shit about such things and just use what they were given.
By the way, changing processes and software in corporations is very hard thing to do as there's so much management/staff/human/distribution issues on the way.
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#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Adobe can't eat penpot! That's the beauty of open source
It's kind of amazing to me that we've reached the point where using open source is not a matter of idealism, but rather risk management to guard against the threat of product regressions due to consumer-hostile takeovers.
Not to be too inflammatory, but it's always amazing to me how people will ignore a threat as long as possible, then pretend it just appeared once they are forced to acknowledge it.
Not a perfect XKCD match, but pretty close: https://xkcd.com/743
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#414Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually think we need new antitrust laws that are a bit more proactive when it comes to super-massive companies like Adobe. Such companies have learned to be much more cunning when it comes to get around existing laws, and plus they have much more money than ever.
>we need new antitrust laws that are a bit more proactive Bingo! Adobe has a de facto monopoly on vector and bitmap editing software tools, and it would make total sense for this acquisition to be stopped by the government on that basis. "The government" in this case would be the DoJ's antitrust division headed by Jonathan Kanter [1]. Looks like the process is to send a letter requesting a "Business Review" [2]. It's…
But why? What is stopping competitors from coming out and beating them?
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#415This is probably the only tech acquisition that's ever made me sad. I just hate Adobe so much. The nightmare of their installer, the weird store with horrible designs popping up when you activate normal ui stuff, the difficulty in canceling a subscription, and the stasis in their product and ui. Oh and the sloppiness of Lightroom on mac with it's weird ui and that it didn't even import and manage photos well. I've be…
>the difficulty in canceling a subscription Never had an issue with this tbh, it's always very easy. Manage account > cancel plan. Hell, if you subscribe but then cancel within the same day, they give you a full refund. I've abused this a few times if I just need to do something quick - sub, use it for a few hours, cancel, and it doesn't cost me anything.
Their “yearly plan, billed monthly” with early termination fees is blatantly anti-consumer.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#416Oh noooooooooooo!!!! They're going to bloat it up, make it slow, roll it into Creative Cloud, and add obnoxious DRM :( :( :(
Boooooooooooo.
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#417What are alternatives to Figma?
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#418$20B for graphics editor in browser – there is no inflation in US. World does not make any sense.
Adobe is worth 10 times that and technically just makes "photo and video editors for PC."
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#419Oh no :( Unbelievably sad news.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#420Ahh, Adobe.. they have earnings for billions and billions and they can not improve their software suites on performance..
Yeah, kind of wonder what would have happened had Adobe instead pulled a pair of engineers aside and said, "Hey, we want you two to create a Figma rival. You'll have no directives from up above, have all the freedom to write the app how you want. You can work where you want, when you want ... if you need more specific expertise on the team you can take who you like. The first version you roll out doesn't have to have…
That money's not for the code...