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Re:Stability AI: Emad Mostaque resigned from his role as CEO by ska on Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:10PM (#39801420)
> Figma could build an illustrator killer in 6 months if they wanted to and it would be obliterated

Statements like this are almost always wrong, if for no other reason that a technically superior alternative is rarely compelling enough by itself. It that weren’t the case you would see it happen far more often…

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Re:Stability AI: Emad Mostaque resigned from his role as CEO by andy_ppp on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:00AM (#39816414)
Well that wasn’t true when Figma just completely replaced Sketch. The sharing features and realtime multiuser interface is worth a lot to people.
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Re:Stability AI: Emad Mostaque resigned from his role as CEO by ska on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:19PM (#39834380)
That’s a different scenario: could a system be built to eat X’s lunch.

The scenario I was calling out is more: Company A is great at X, so clearly that technology could be used to easily be great at Y, and doom company B in 6 months. The problem with that thinking is that often the technology is the easy part (and sometimes superficial similarity, also).

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