Break up Adobe. They have had a monopoly on creative tools for more than 10 years now.
I bought the Affinity suite a few years back. Dropped Adobe when they started going all Creative Cloud monthly subscription, and haven’t looked back. Definitely recommend. Don’t let Adobe have a monopoly when other great choices exist.
Would this help? Photoshop existing as its own company doesn’t really stop the adobe/premiere/aftereffects dominance much
YES. Actually it would since that’s how it started.
Now that you mention it, I CAN go one better:
as a penalty for a decade of anti-competitive behavior, force Adobe to open source all of it’s creative suite, shut the whole company down, and imprison the executives who illegally bought all of their competition.
why are we shouting
Because yelling is fun
Hopefully the EU tells Adobe to actually compete instead of just buying the competition.
It’s incredibly depressing that this is how it has to be. Competition in this style of economy is dead. You either buy, be sold to some other company, or go out of business
I still miss Macromedia
Figma, yeah right! Nice try
figma balls
Now that’s a joke worth $20 billion.
Damn it. Beat me by 2 hours…
Adobe: We’re gonna go buy Figma.
EU: care to elaborate on-
Adobe: Figma Balls
EU:… on how that doesn’t make you a Monopoly?
Adobe: 😐
EU: 😐
Why compete, if you can buy your competitors?
Ohhh f… I love Figma. We have promoted it as a great tool internally. Company started using it. Then the enterprise.
No way i or anyone else here will start to pay Adobe prices for it!
As a UX designer, EU please save us from Adobe!
Me, a toy nerd: “Oh shit, Adobe owns Figma???”
<reads community>
“…oh…” lol
