Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
by ginger2016 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:06PM
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The thing about Adobe is that their products are used by common people and professionals. I edit 10 of my personal photos a year, still I have an Adobe subscription which includes Photoshop and Lightroom.
Had Figma been part of the Adobe Suite I would have at-least downloaded it and tried it. As great as Figma is, reach of their product is limited, Adobe is giving Figma‘s technology the reach they would have never gotten as a standalone company.
Figma is free to use. It's cross-platform, web-based, and multiple people can edit at the same time.
Limited reach is probably the last way to describe Figma. It's just an awareness thing, which is totally fine.
Tried it for what? If you were a UI designer then you would have been using it already let alone not heard of it.
Tell that to Adobe who disagrees with you to the order of 20 billion dollars.
Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
by ginger2016 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:34PM
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I said Figma is not worth 20 billion as a standalone company. It might be worth 20 billion to Adobe. Adobe can do to Figma what Facebook did to Instagram, Facebook took a relatively small startup Instagram and made it into a global juggernaut worth hundreds of billions in value.
Similar story with ByteDance and Musically, how many of you have used Musically before Bytedance bought it and re-branded it as TikTok.
> Says it’s a niche product not worth $20B
You’re definitely not aware of how Figma changed the game and how essential it is to web design today. Whether you’re a solo designer, a freelancer, a startup, a tech company, a UX team in a major company… Figma just works. And just makes sense. Their velocity is fantastic. They launch features every few months. The performance is incredible. The ease of use is phenomenal. The collaboration capabilities are perfectly integrated. Even developers use it and love it.
They have taken the market by storm. And it’s a huge market.
You don’t seem to be part of that target market, and that’s fine. But saying Figma joining Adobe is a plus just shows how little you know about Figma and the web design world in general.