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I’m sorry to say I agree. I was hoping Affinity could offer a real alternative to Adobe, and for a while it seemed like they would. But in the last several year
by Pulcinella 5y ago
I’m sorry to say I agree. I was hoping Affinity could offer a real alternative to Adobe, and for a while it seemed like they would. But in the last several years it really seems like they have stagnated. Sure they put our Publisher, but it just feels like they can barely focus on one thing at a time. Photo and Designer were left stagnate in that time, especially on iPad.
It really feels like Affinity does not dog food the iPad apps where UI bugs and awkwardness have persisted for years. E.g. They use a radial slider UI element in a lot of places (e.g. representing 0-100% of some blur effect) that is just awkward as hell to use. The element is circular but you can't move your finger in a circular pattern to change it like you would if it was a knob or slider on a physical circular track. Instead dragging from left to right or bottom to top will increase the value. This leads to the user having to remember to drag from bottom right to top left. Otherwise if you drag from bottom to top, but also move slightly from right to left, the two behaviors fight each other and what happens is undefined.
As you said there also haven’t been many feature improvements over the years. While I don’t expect complete feature parity with Adobe, the gaps between the apps and their Adobe counterparts seems to have only widened over the years and their is no road map for improvement.
I just hope they don’t turn out like the OmniGroup where an initially strong company with strong software stagnates over years.