What will happen? I can't predict. I played with the new version of Affinity this weekend, and it's solid. I'm not going to cancel my Adobe subscription just yet, but I can certainly imagine LOTS of other independant creatives with less budget opting to do so. It's the first REAL threat to Adobe in a long time, and that is a good thing.
The unfortunate side effect is now Adobe is a near monopoly in creative software. The only real outlier being Figma (but that's a different story). They NEED competiton. And, regardless of what you think of the actual software, Affinity being free and combating Adobe's scubscription model is a GOOD thing for creatives and creative industry.
Adobe won that battle, not only through making a better product than the others but also through some bad decisions by competitors (Quark being extremely late to adapt Express to Mac OS X prompted mass migration to Adobe InDesign). Point being, through process only Adobe now remains.
A lot of talk around Adobe & Canva Affinity recently. Here's my 2 cents. A lot of us old creatives grew up in a time of competition between design apps (Quark, Corel, Macromedia, Omni, and yes Adobe). Competition was good. It forced the cream to rise to the top and acted as bulwark against a single walled-garden.
God I miss New York. I don't miss paying NY prices, but I miss New York.
https://youtu.be/uYX7yxV-ypA?si=nQBy0NrF0YRg-Sbe
The 8 Hottest Takes on New York City | SubwayTakes Compilation
For the love of all that is good, if you are presenting on an "all company" meeting please mute your Outlook and Slack notifications. 🤬
I requested apple to transfer my iCloud photos to Google photos a week ago and they still haven't done it 🤬 really shouldn't take this long
I'm leaning towards Windows 11. I actually really like Microsoft's clean UI, but it's cluttered up with bloat by default. Luckily you can get rid all of that with the Chris Titus Windows Utility for a very clean stock install
https://youtu.be/0PA1wgdMeeI?si=GtGtEOuE6TH6KXBk
YouTubeI tried Linux (Zorin OS). I like the clean UI, but there are just too may apps that I NEED that aren't available. So that's a no-go. The options are now stick with Mac (and revert to Sequoia) or switch to Windows 11.
