Re:Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?
by irrational on Saturday February 12, 2022 @11:15AM
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What percentage are business users? My company pays for a license to creative cloud for me. But for personal use it is too expensive, so I use Affinity suite. If students use something cheaper like Affinity suite and many professionals use affinity suite for their personal use, there may come a time where businesses realize that they don’t actually have to pay out for creative cloud.
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Re:Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?
by o_____________o on Saturday February 12, 2022 @01:33PM
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Let’s not forget that Photoshop has always been expensive and became the de facto photo editor because they were so far ahead of everyone when piracy was rampant. That’s the only way most people were Photoshop literate by the time they entered the job market.
This was discussed frequently inside Abobe, but the solutions always flowed back to more control instead of more openness. Now Adobe is going to push tech exoticism while suites like Affinity eat up the market.
To this day pirating adobe's stuff is straight forward. They don't seem to be trying really hard to sto piracy probably because they know their money comes from enterprise. To put things in perspective the same crack has been working for releases from the last 2 years. If they really wanted to keep piracy at bay they could have made the lives of people who don't pay harder.