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A lot of professionals would like to switch to Affinity too - InDesign hasn’t changed too much for last 10 years… But if you have everything in its format, deci

by sixtyj 1y ago

A lot of professionals would like to switch to Affinity too - InDesign hasn’t changed too much for last 10 years… But if you have everything in its format, decision to switch is tough as there is no tool to import or open full indd files to Affinity or anywhere else than Adobe. Life-time vendor-lock. For new people, Affinity is easier to start, and their new policy to give it for free is awesome. What comes first from Adobe? Pro products for free? Or attempt to acquire Canva?

graypegg 1y ago
> Or attempt to acquire Canva? I wonder if the Figma acquisition being canned [0] would also prevent them going after Canva. However, there might be different people in those regulator positions/agencies... I don't want to will that into existence, so I'll just hold onto hope that fighting for regulator approval would be obscenely expensive for Adobe still. Fingers crossed! [0] https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/adobe-and-figma-mutually-agree-to-terminate-merger-agreement https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/adobe-and-figm...
- sixtyj 1y ago
  Yeah, fingers crossed is what we need. Adobe wanted to acquire Figma for 20B, and Canva is 4.4 times bigger in revenue… If allowed it would be a huge acquisition.
pedalpete 1y ago
Adobe likely doesn't have the market cap to acquire Canva, unless I'm missing something in understanding M&A. Canva is now north of $65B and growing at 100% YoY. Adobe's market cap is $142B, and with every month, Canva is chipping away at Adobe's value. Can Adobe give up 40% of the company to acquire Canva, and would Canva even want that? Mel, Cliff, and Cam continue to amaze me!
- sixtyj 1y ago
  Yes, Canva is amazing. Except the AI that sort of sucks but it is a must in this AI bubble. In Adobe they have to decide quickly how to deal with it. Canva is a real business competitor for them. Theoretically, some kind of joint venture could be set up. Money, I mean a lot of money, often breaks a lot of people we think are cool. See Skype, LinkedIn, Zappos, Minecraft or even Affinity. Almost everyone has a limit. The only exception is perhaps curl or vlc player that I can remember off the top of my head.

by sixtyj 1y ago

graypegg 1y ago

> Or attempt to acquire Canva? I wonder if the Figma acquisition being canned [0] would also prevent them going after Canva. However, there might be different people in those regulator positions/agencies... I don't want to will that into existence, so I'll just hold onto hope that fighting for regulator approval would be obscenely expensive for Adobe still. Fingers crossed! [0] https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/adobe-and-figma-mutually-agree-to-terminate-merger-agreement https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/adobe-and-figm...

sixtyj 1y ago
Yeah, fingers crossed is what we need. Adobe wanted to acquire Figma for 20B, and Canva is 4.4 times bigger in revenue… If allowed it would be a huge acquisition.

pedalpete 1y ago

Adobe likely doesn't have the market cap to acquire Canva, unless I'm missing something in understanding M&A. Canva is now north of $65B and growing at 100% YoY. Adobe's market cap is $142B, and with every month, Canva is chipping away at Adobe's value. Can Adobe give up 40% of the company to acquire Canva, and would Canva even want that? Mel, Cliff, and Cam continue to amaze me!

sixtyj 1y ago
Yes, Canva is amazing. Except the AI that sort of sucks but it is a must in this AI bubble. In Adobe they have to decide quickly how to deal with it. Canva is a real business competitor for them. Theoretically, some kind of joint venture could be set up. Money, I mean a lot of money, often breaks a lot of people we think are cool. See Skype, LinkedIn, Zappos, Minecraft or even Affinity. Almost everyone has a limit. The only exception is perhaps curl or vlc player that I can remember off the top of my head.