@FuturisticRobert makes sense as #Adobe neglected #Flash / #Animate for way over a decade and #ToonBoomHarmony is like the "#IndustryStandard" to the point that competitiors like #Moho and #blender are only gaining market share in places where it's not feasible to charge triple digits per user and month...

I mean, Moho and Blender do nowadays integrate quite nicely as @fuchsiii found out in her tests...

But obviously

@kkarhan @fuchsiii

It's nice to see 2D isn't dying. I'll admit the animation style in the FIM movie was a bit of a shock, but when you have better tools there's no creative reason not to take those tools out for a spin and hit the accelerator so to s peak.

Adobe's recent killing-off of Adobe Animate is hilarious, but when you're a corpo, where the "line" must "go up," killing off your solid long-term products for short-term gains enabled by content theft machines must be an irresistible win.

@FuturisticRobert @fuchsiii I think that's the fundamental unfixable problem of publicly traded corporations because they are legally mandated to maximize ROI for shareholders at an exponential rate they'll inevitably hit a ceiling.

• Even if that means they run out of humans and businesses that ain't already buying all their stuff and subscribing to everything.
  • This is why #Microsoft stopped caring about #consumers as they basically "owned" the #desktoplinux with #WindowsXP and until they killed #Windows7 & #Windows10 any other OS was a *"statistical #RoundingError"...
    
  • All for #Linux to win is to not #enshittify at the same or faster pace than #Windows11...

Per contrast, #Valve (which is owned predominantly by #GabeN and only has marginal amounts of (non-traded!) stocks with it's employees) is also doing great without #enshittifiying #Steam.

• Mostly because #Steam can't afford to mistreat it's customers longterm, as being convenient for said users is what sets them apart from any other store...
  • The only reason they pivoted to Linux is because #GabeNewell realized the frontal attack #Windows8Bing and #Windows10S are on his company and that it's a horrible gamble to not assume #Windows trying to monopolize #Apps and #Games #distribution wouldn't cull Steam.
  • Not that they like #OpenSource, because their #BusinessModel is diametrically opposite by virtue of selling access to #CCSS. It's just that they know that Microsoft could otherwise choke them to death so fast and brutal that they'd end up bankrupt faster than #Gawker when #peterThiel decided to literally "sue them into bankrupcy"...

Which makes Gaben propably the only publicly known #billionaire that isn't hated.

• Or maybe it's his and thus Valve's #AntiAI - Stance that #Gamers love...