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Re: Affinity Studio now free

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Post by Kelteseth »

ctippett wrote: post #670

I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, but the application bundle on macOS hints at a pretty robust scripting API using Javascript. The functionality doesn't seem to be exposed from what I can see in the app. /Applications/Affinity.app/Contents/Resources/JSLib ├── application.js ├── artboardinterface.js ├── artboardproperties.js ├── baseboxinterface.js ├── brushfillinterface.js ├── buffer.js ├── collection.js ├── colo…

Nice catch! As a V1 and then V2 user, this was the only thing that was missing for me :)

Re: Affinity Studio now free

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Post by Ekaros »

bdangubic wrote: post #472
reddalo wrote: post #464

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Yeah, 100% sure it will get worse, especially after the AI bubble pops.

the ai bubble has already popped!!! the biggest tech companies on the planet who are spending insane amounts of capex on “ai” keep reporting insane earnings reports one after another, things are popping left & right

I think we can reasonably ask would they have netted even more without those investments?

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Post by radiKal07 »

wizzzzzy wrote: post #467
guelo wrote: post #430

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I've been using ByteDance's CapCut video editor that has this business model and I've been blown away by the top quality tool you get for free. It really doesn't feel scammy when they ask for money for fancy features that cost them extra GPU cycles to run the AI models.

To add to this, Davinci Resolve is also great freemium software IMO

Kdenlive is free and open-source and is so great, such a slept on app

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

wartywhoa23 wrote: post #459

If a product is free, the user is the product. Why the account tie? Will it phone home to train yet another AI model on my image editing workflows? Will it work air-gapped?

Yeah 100% the hope is to train a model to do the things currently a professional needs hiring for so they can enable an unskilled to prompt that work.

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Post by sethaurus »

pier25 wrote: post #524
gotrythis wrote: post #449

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I am a daily user of Affinity Publisher and regular user of Affinity Photo. I bought version 1 when it came out, upgraded to version 2, and upgraded this morning to the new, free version. This is NOT FREEMIUM as I understand the model, as it is not limited in any way. This is everything they were charging for and more, now free, with free upgrades. I'm personally thrilled to get so much value for free.

Nothing is free. If they can't monetize the product with ai subscriptions they sure as hell will end up monetizing their users and their content.

I suspect Canva is willing to offer Affinity for free because it holds Adobe's feet to the fire and forces them to compete on Canva's home turf: the nonprofessional design market.

There's clearly a funnel for Canva Pro upgrades, but (to my knowledge) they've never paywalled formerly-free features, and it seems to be a profitable strategy so far.

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