![]() At the moment, AP after 6 years still hasn’t progressed enough to catch up with Photoshop. Because of this fact, in order to attract professionals in creative agencies/creative design houses away from their favoured workplace structure, you have to offer something which will equal or better what they are using to entice them away. That said, the software was launched into an already established professional market which is always a hard task. ![]() Yes that’s very true but if I cast my mind back to 2014 when Serif launched AP and AD, the software was aimed fairly and squarely at the “Professional market”. What has been said in this thread might be an example of how good it is when there is competition, as it has been implied that Adobe has felt the need to improve their program to be able to compete with Affinity □ It would be terrible if any company (Adobe or whichever) had no competition. It would be terrible if Adobe’s programs where the only ones of the kind around and if they had no competition. I wonder if most people would keep using them if they had to pay every month for being allowed to do so, in which case I would bet they might be tempted to move to other platforms.Īnyway, I think there is enough people in the world, enough variety of needs and/or tastes, enough different ways of dealing with even the same kind of jobs, so as to allow more than one program of the kind to coexist. They are both for free (well, one has to cope with publicity in Facebook). ![]() And perhaps, referring to Facebook or Twitter isn’t either. ![]() Perhaps, referring to a Ferrari was not the best way of making a point. For example, I would imagine that most photographers end up submitting a tiff file or a jpg file or a print to their clients, not a psd file. Nevertheless, not everybody needs to submit their work to others with the inclusion of how it was developed. I never had a problem and if I needed to share what I had done in its raw format, I would either submit a pdf or a dwg file (if being just a thecnical drawing) that anybody would be able to open and edit. But I made them using Serif PagePlus, and I made my draft drawings using Serif DrawPlus, for technical drawing I used TurboCad instead of AutoCad, and I used Corel Write (from Corel Office) instead of Microsoft Word, and PhotoPlus instead of Photoshop. When I was working (I have retired this year) I used to submit my reports in pdf format. I think that Pdf files might be an example of what you are saying. The large network of captured users reinforces the dominance and monopoly-like position of Facebook and Twitter.Īdobe benefits from a similar network effect insofar as other professional creatives and corporate clients expect and demand the exchange of native Adobe files, not just for final deliverables, but also for collaborative work in development. One could elect to avoid or drop Facebook, or Twitter, but 90% of the rest of the world including one's friends and family members are using those channels to communicate and share. BUT, consider the problem of Facebook, or Twitter, for example. The fact that your neighbor chooses to buy a Ferrari puts no real pressure on you to also buy a Ferrari, or to prevent you from selling your Ferrari and switching to another model of car. Problem for Serif and their customers, however, is that they are confronting the unique problem of the network effect, a problem that mostly tyrannizes the computer software industry. ![]()
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