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Affinity is joining the Canva family (forum.affinity.serif.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/canva-statement/

Also someone linked this old tweet

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago

Pretty much

They had a set of programs that rivalled Adobe Photoshop and similar software, good enough to be used by the industry. They differentiated themselves by having everything available with a one-time purchase instead of Adobe's monthly subscriptions.

They got acquired by a big corp that's known for annoying subscriptions, so people are worried that the software won't be developed in the same way anymore