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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by dharma1 on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:10PM (#26753919)
I’m with you. I use Figma for all UI/UX work, Resolve for editing/grading but still reach for AE for motion graphics and some video things. Even though After Effects is super slow and doesn’t seem to get much faster with newer CPUs/GPUs, there’s nothing else that comes close. Maybe Fusion in Resolve if Blackmagic spent enough development effort on it.

Having said that, I think Adobe can still continue to grow with the overall digital/creative market growth, even if they are losing market share on a couple of the flagship products. They have some enterprise cloud software and I guess the photography/print design/illustration users are still there.

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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by scyzoryk_xyz on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:12AM (#26769758)
This. It’s still a long way down for Adobe to descend, and they have strategic control over many “cash cows” which aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. The entire publishing industry has no reasonable alternative to InDesign for instance. That’s a lot of software subscriptions getting paid for.

Adobe must know this, and their lack of agility must be no accident. It’s like they’ve turned from being a versatile army of innovative creative developers into a strategically located stronghold of trolls.

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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by dharma1 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @03:02PM (#26772578)
Yep. This happens to many businesses as they grow and get older - the people change, early innovators leave and decision making starts becoming dominated by milking the cash cows. The company becomes too large and too risk averse to be able to move fast.
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