Knusper@feddit.de
on 21 Oct 2023 11:53
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Why compete, if you can buy your competitors?
cybersandwich@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2023 23:38
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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.
crit@links.hackliberty.org
on 22 Oct 2023 02:42
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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
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2023 12:10
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Figma, yeah right! Nice try
breadsmasher@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2023 12:34
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figma balls
all-knight-party@kbin.run
on 21 Oct 2023 13:36
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onlinepersona@programming.dev
on 21 Oct 2023 12:13
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Hopefully the EU tells Adobe to actually compete instead of just buying the competition.
ripcord@kbin.social
on 21 Oct 2023 12:41
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I still miss Macromedia
dinckelman@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2023 12:43
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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
demesisx@infosec.pub
on 21 Oct 2023 12:23
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Break up Adobe. They have had a monopoly on creative tools for more than 10 years now.
echo64@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2023 13:53
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Would this help? Photoshop existing as its own company doesn’t really stop the adobe/premiere/aftereffects dominance much
demesisx@infosec.pub
on 21 Oct 2023 14:26
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YES. Actually it would since that’s how it started.
Now that you mention it, I CAN go one better:
as a penalty for a decade of anti-competitive behavior, force Adobe to open source all of it’s creative suite, shut the whole company down, and imprison the executives who illegally bought all of their competition.
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.
Z4rK@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2023 14:47
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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!
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.
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Why compete, if you can buy your competitors?
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.
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
Figma, yeah right! Nice try
figma balls
Now that's a joke worth $20 billion.
Damn it. Beat me by 2 hours…
Hopefully the EU tells Adobe to actually compete instead of just buying the competition.
I still miss Macromedia
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
Break up Adobe. They have had a monopoly on creative tools for more than 10 years now.
Would this help? Photoshop existing as its own company doesn’t really stop the adobe/premiere/aftereffects dominance much
YES. Actually it would since that’s how it started.
Now that you mention it, I CAN go one better:
as a penalty for a decade of anti-competitive behavior, force Adobe to open source all of it’s creative suite, shut the whole company down, and imprison the executives who illegally bought all of their competition.
why are we shouting
Because yelling is fun
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.
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!
There’s also penpot (alternative)
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 😅
Me, a toy nerd: "Oh shit, Adobe owns Figma???"
<reads community>"..oh.." lol
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: 😐
As a UX designer, EU please save us from Adobe!
Fuck Adobe in general. Keep them contained.
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.
Figma balls
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)
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.
Who the hell is Steve Jobs
Correct.