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People have been building alternatives to MS Office, Adopt Creative Suite, and so on and so forth for literally decades and yet they’re still the de facto stand
by hnlmorg 9mo ago
People have been building alternatives to MS Office, Adopt Creative Suite, and so on and so forth for literally decades and yet they’re still the de facto standard.
Turns out it’s a lot harder to disrupt than it sounds.
- fragmede 9mo agoIt's really hard. But not impossible. Figma managed to. What's different this time around is AI assisted programming means that people can go in and fix bugs, and the interchange becomes the important part.
- hnlmorg 9mo agoFigma is another subscription-only service with no native applications. The closest thing we get to “disruption” these days are web services with complimentary Electron apps, which basically just serves the same content as the website except for duplicating the memory overhead of running a fresh browser instance.
- coldtea 9mo agoFigma didn't disrupt anything except Adobe, it's the same shitty business model and the same shitty corporate overloads.