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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by madeofpalk on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:16AM (#38682818)
Once upon a time, digital product design happened in Photoshop and Illustrator. Then competitors like Sketch and Figma came out with a better product. This made Adobe create XD to compete, but it was unable to make a good product so instead they tried to purcahse their competition instead of making something better.

9 months after Adobe announced it was to purchase Figma (and 3 months before it hoped the deal would close), Adobe discontinued XD.

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by cantSpellSober on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:47AM (#38683214)
Fireworks tried to fill the gaps between PS and Illustrator, but never got traction.

> Adobe discontinued XD

That was my understanding as well, hmm

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by i_am_jl on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:50AM (#38684097)
>Fireworks tried to fill the gaps between PS and Illustrator, but never got traction.

I couldn't disagree more. Fireworks was a perfect blend of raster and vector editing and was killer for early 2000s web design work. It was an amazing Macromedia product that got neglected by Adobe.

If I'm in a cynical mood I sometimes think it's because an up-to-date Fireworks would have cannibalized the sales of PS/AI, but I think that gives too much credit to Adobe.

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by nolok on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:25AM (#38683683)
Fireworks wasn't an original Adobe product but a Macromedia one they got during the acquisition. Adobe seems to have had some massive lack of effort for those (Flash being the prime exemple).
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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by cartermatic on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:56AM (#38683308)
RIP to Fireworks, it's the first tool I ever used for design.
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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by madeofpalk on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:31AM (#38683777)
Yet another example of Adobe purchasing their biggest competition and then shutting it down!
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