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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by sirn on Monday June 17, 2024 @05:51PM (#40711490)
Another caveat is that if your workflow requires dealing with complex text layout on a regular basis (e.g., Asian languages), Affinity suite support for it is pretty much non-existent. For example, lack of a working right-to-left support, no vertical text support for CJK, broken tone markers handling in Thai layout, lack of complex word-break for any languages that is not space-based, etc.

Sadly, Adobe is still the only option in the market for this.

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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by x0x0 on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @12:04PM (#40719380)
It's really striking to see two things in this thread: (1) complaints about price, and (2) repeated (cjk, lightroom library management, a half dozen other things) that Adobe offers features that have no competition. Feels like Adobe is charging for being the sole provider for various features that people need.
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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by wlesieutre on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @09:08AM (#40727939)
Photoshop has been around for 34 years, even if they jacked the price up to $500/month nobody would be able to show up with feature parity to compete for 100% of their customers right away. It's a heck of a moat.
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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by x0x0 on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:26PM (#40731030)
Sure, but the thread is also full of people claiming Adobe is rent seeking. Charging a high price for differentiated, unique features that competitors haven't replicated is not rent seeking. That's just capitalism.
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