• demesisx@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    Break up Adobe. They have had a monopoly on creative tools for more than 10 years now.

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      I bought the Affinity suite a few years back. Dropped Adobe when they started going all Creative Cloud monthly subscription, and haven’t looked back. Definitely recommend. Don’t let Adobe have a monopoly when other great choices exist.

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      Would this help? Photoshop existing as its own company doesn’t really stop the adobe/premiere/aftereffects dominance much

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    Adobe: We’re gonna go buy Figma.

    EU: care to elaborate on-

    Adobe: Figma Balls

    EU:… on how that doesn’t make you a Monopoly?

    Adobe: 😐

    EU: 😐

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      It’s incredibly depressing that this is how it has to be. Competition in this style of economy is dead. You either buy, be sold to some other company, or go out of business

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    1. Fuck Adobe in general. Keep them contained.

    2. We can’t just waste a name like “Figma” and let it get merged and buried. It has too much cultural value off its name alone.

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    Ohhh f… I love Figma. We have promoted it as a great tool internally. Company started using it. Then the enterprise.

    No way i or anyone else here will start to pay Adobe prices for it!

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        Looks nice from a quick look! Clearly a plan to be recognizable to Figma fans.

        Do you have an honest opinion on how feature complete it is compared to Figma? Does it have something like Figjam?

        Edit: Already waiting for the Figma-to-Penpot export utility to get more feature complete 😅

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      1 year ago

      Figma was about to eat their lunch, so they are trying to buy them. If that’s not anti-competitive I don’t know what is.

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        1 year ago

        About to? It was already feasting on their next week lunch when it comes to UX and UI work, instead of making XD into a good competitor they just wanted to take the easy way out

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    1 year ago

    Figma Bal-

    Uhhh… I mean yeah, screw Adobe, go Open Source! Screw Monopolies!

    (To be honest, I never heard of Figma or Adobe XD, their supposed competition, until this acquisition)

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    Kinda sucks. There’s already so little competition in the design space. Inkscape is honestly pretty clunky, usable if you learn to deal with its quirks.