Adobe's Black Friday Sale Takes 50% Off Creative Cloud Pro for Your First Year

[JohannesO]

Sure sure.

If that was true they would not have sold themselves to Canva. That showed how much they believed in their future that they sold the company like when Macromedia sold themselves to a bigger company.

Look, we have been through this for 30 years. In the mid 90s the Paint Shop Pro guys had Adobe Derangment Syndrome. 10 years later the GIMP guys had Adobe Derangement Syndrome. Then the Macromedia guys had Adobe Derangement Syndrome. Now it’s Affinity.

That is a Lite edition badly designed software and they charge you a subscription if you want the full edition which is like a chihuahua version of Photoshop.​

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/adobes-black-friday-sale-takes-50-off-creative-cloud-pro-for-your-first-year.2471494/post-34296802

• Lite edition
• badly designed
• chihuahua

Well, then proof your points, if you're so sure.
Can you do more than just polemics in this case? I doubt it.

Payment is required only for AI if you want the new, not only the built in AI features. Otherwise all known functionality and more (V3 instead of V2) is free.

 

[MacHeritage]

Sure sure.

If that was true they would not have sold themselves to Canva. That showed how much they believed in their future that they sold the company like when Macromedia sold themselves to a bigger company.

Look, we have been through this for 30 years. In the mid 90s the Paint Shop Pro guys had Adobe Derangment Syndrome. 10 years later the GIMP guys had Adobe Derangement Syndrome. Then the Macromedia guys had Adobe Derangement Syndrome. Now it’s Affinity.

Unlike the past ones we have all lived through, the CEO and team behind Affinity is still there and actually steering the ship. It isn't like they sold themselves out and then walked away like so many others. They are still working towards their original vision for Affinity since they started. Serif was great for starting and taking their time to build it out but Canva has deep pockets and a separate revenue stream. Both companies have been very good, so far, with letting Affinity do their thing. Time will ultimately tell if Canva is a win win like Serif was.

 

[MacHeritage]

Affinity is free so you can try it out. It's by no means a drop in replacement for Photoshop, let alone Photoshop + Lightroom. Pixelmator Pro + Photomator combo is promising, but you know, Apple discontinued Aperture.

Yes, Affinity was originally basing things on Aperture being there and therefore didn't even think of creating that kind of app.

Raw Power and the new Nitro Photo are the closest replacements you can find and are from the same lead developer that built Aperture at Apple. "Raw Power was developed by Nik Bhatt, who was a lead developer for Apple’s Aperture." They did make a new Aperture 4 internally, so after Aperture 3's discontinuation, he started Raw Power to continue Aperture's advanced macOS RAW processing and feature set that was unique to Aperture.

Nik also lead the team that made Soundtrack and Soundtrack Pro at Apple, which is still my favourite sound editing software today.

 

[JohannesO]

just polemics in this case

Obviously 🙄

 

[JMalone]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/adobes-black-friday-sale-takes-50-off-creative-cloud-pro-for-your-first-year.2471494/post-34296802

• Lite edition
• badly designed
• chihuahua

Well, then proof your points, if you're so sure.
Can you do more than just polemics in this case? I doubt it.

Payment is required only for AI if you want the new, not only the built in AI features. Otherwise all known functionality and more (V3 instead of V2) is free.

Affinity users have the same toxicity that previous generations of people with Adobe Derangment Syndrome. The same toxicity GIMP users had in the 90s. The same toxicity Linux users used to have when they thought they would become the universally used desktop OS by the year 2005.

Last year the Affinity users thought the company was their hero who would never charge subscriptions, never use generative AI and never sell out. Such naive and toxic people always eat their words when they see how capitalism works.

Affinity are just another Macromedia. A company bought out by a bigger company whose apps will be rebranded and some of it abandoned forever. In two years they will be called Canva apps and there will be no “free option”.

 

[JohannesO]

Affinity users have the same toxicity that previous generations of people with Adobe Derangment Syndrome. The same toxicity GIMP users had in the 90s. The same toxicity Linux users used to have when they thought they would become the universally used desktop OS by the year 2005.

Last year the Affinity users thought the company was their hero who would never charge subscriptions, never use generative AI and never sell out. Such naive and toxic people always eat their words when they see how capitalism works.

Affinity are just another Macromedia. A company bought out by a bigger company whose apps will be rebranded and some of it abandoned forever. In two years they will be called Canva apps and there will be no “free option”.

actually proofing my point
no facts about the software at all (#liteedition #badlydesigned)
ad hominem "arguments" only
👤🧵🔕

 

[JMalone]

actually proofing my point
no facts about the software at all (#liteedition #badlydesigned)
ad hominem "arguments" only
👤🧵🔕

In the words of a famous k-pop band “Eat it up, eat it eat it up.”

That’s what toxic Affinity users are like. Always eating it up the marketing and realizing a year later they been had.

 

[gokhano]

I could consider it if:

• Adobe hadn’t crooked me before (they offered two additional months free and billed me (and charged my credit card) for half the free months anyway and the support agent pretends not to know how to count from 1 to 2)
• They didn’t plant multiple variants of their spyware dispersed across different locations in the file system ( so that if you discover and disable one, there are a dozen more to deal with) Adobe calls it telemetry to improve their ‘products’ (of type spyware?) You are not only being spied on, but your computer’s slowed down and extra RAM eaten away just so that your private data needs to be sent to different servers of Adobe. (One or two isn’t enough, it’s gotta be a dozen!)
• Over-priced experience - especially given the previous fact.