https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canva-acquires-affinity-design-suite-004813952.htmlRIP in peace Affinity Suite, you had such potentialHow do you think they will ruin it bros?
Subscriptions probably. They don't want you using standalone apps they want online only.
>>453757doesn't matterAI will do GD work for us
>>453757the vast majority of people have no principles
>>453757Not having a mandatory subscription fee as opposed to Adobe's Creative Cloud is *the* source of Affinity's success. It's the most cited reason people switched from Adobe. If Affinity goes subscription, it's over.
If I read the press release correctly, Canva is signaling that they intend for the Affinity suite to be used by designers to create assets for non-designers to use in the existing Canva web app. So the idea is a company has a designer on staff who will create their corporate asset, and then marketing or whoever can make their collateral the same way they've been doing it.I figure they will cease the perpetual licenses eventually since the number of Affinity users is dwarfed by the number of Canva subscribers. But I don't think this will kill the software because I don't think they really care about having it as standalone software to begin with. It was nice while it lasted, I'll probably keep my V2 install for the time being, but I don't think I'll be updating it anymore.
>>453765>AI will do GD work instead of us.FTFY
>>453778Judt get a crack when you can no longer authenticate. Hell, I used affinity more often than my pirated adobe for it's better performance in making graphics and signature looks manuals for companies, especially when all suites can be used seamlessly on Publisher. Canva is 100% kosher and will shelf affinity but keep the tools for their online only programs in the future.
>>453789In-Design is so archaic in comparison to Publisher it's laughable. I don't know why Affiinity products weren't mass adopted. I guess being the niche wasn't profitable enough for them.
Canva is FUCKING DOGSHIT. If you work as a sing print designer like me you'd agree.
>>453791InDesign is perfect for magazine and book layouts with master pages, but yeah, it's old but it does the job despite being featureless.
>>453765badly/cookiecutter (where that already exists in the form of templates)
>>453791>I don't know why Affiinity products weren't mass adoptedAffinity Photo is shit. I found two things I cant do in it after 2 hours of use. Not to mention some stupid UI and UX decisions. Im amateur in Photoshop and I felt the downgrade...
I don't think they'd do anything drastic enough to put off their users. At least not right away.
>>453757Will this open the doors for a native Linux version of Affinity? Serif has cited the lack of funding as the main reason they couldn't make one. Now that they're owned by a $40 billion company, that shouldn't really be much of a problem anymore.
>>453776>is *the* source of Affinity's success.what success? also, RIP
>>454058the little success it had, dummy.
