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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

Adobe: We’re gonna go buy Figma.

EU: care to elaborate on-

Adobe: Figma Balls

EU:… on how that doesn’t make you a Monopoly?

Adobe: 😐

EU: 😐

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hopefully the EU tells Adobe to actually compete instead of just buying the competition.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

It's incredibly depressing that this is how it has to be. Competition in this style of economy is dead. You either buy, be sold to some other company, or go out of business

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I still miss Macromedia

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Figma, yeah right! Nice try

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now that's a joke worth $20 billion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Damn it. Beat me by 2 hours...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

As a UX designer, EU please save us from Adobe!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  1. Fuck Adobe in general. Keep them contained.

  2. We can't just waste a name like "Figma" and let it get merged and buried. It has too much cultural value off its name alone.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Figma balls

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ohhh f.. I love Figma. We have promoted it as a great tool internally. Company started using it. Then the enterprise.

No way i or anyone else here will start to pay Adobe prices for it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's also penpot (alternative)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Looks nice from a quick look! Clearly a plan to be recognizable to Figma fans.

Do you have an honest opinion on how feature complete it is compared to Figma? Does it have something like Figjam?

Edit: Already waiting for the Figma-to-Penpot export utility to get more feature complete 😅

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why compete, if you can buy your competitors?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Figma was about to eat their lunch, so they are trying to buy them. If that's not anti-competitive I don't know what is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

About to? It was already feasting on their next week lunch when it comes to UX and UI work, instead of making XD into a good competitor they just wanted to take the easy way out

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Figma Bal-

Uhhh... I mean yeah, screw Adobe, go Open Source! Screw Monopolies!

(To be honest, I never heard of Figma or Adobe XD, their supposed competition, until this acquisition)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Me, a toy nerd: "Oh shit, Adobe owns Figma???"

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"..oh.." lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who the hell is Steve Jobs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Kinda sucks. There's already so little competition in the design space. Inkscape is honestly pretty clunky, usable if you learn to deal with its quirks.