macgizmo

Leaving the reasons for this entire circus aside, I don't know of a single serious professional designer who has any intention of leaving Adobe for another set of apps. Note that I said DESIGNER, not photographer (though I don't know of more than a small handful of them either).

I think it's easy for a freelancer specializing in social media and web design to switch to Affinity, but anyone working in an agency environment or who has to send native files to printers (yes, there are still reasons for doing that) simply can't do it. Not only is there the cost of the apps themselves (which granted is much lower than Adobe on a 1:1 comparison), it's the cost of lost productivity - both up front in the learning process, but also the ongoing task of maintaining several different apps that don't work as well together like Adobe's apps.

There's also the Adobe font collection that's included in the Adobe CC subscription. It doesn't seem like much, but access to that many fonts without an extra cost is certainly worth it, in my opinion.

I purchased the entire Affinity suite of apps when they were made available. I love the fact that they're providing competition for Adobe, if not at a small scale. In fact, I wish they could compete at a larger scale. Affinity Publisher is just so far behind InDesign that I can't even consider it for anything more than a simple flyer... but Designer and Photo are great apps.

But at the end of the day, I always end up at the same place... $60 per month for the 7 apps I use all day every day, along with thousands of fonts, is just couch cushion money compared to what I make using them.

As far as Adobe "training their LLM" with my work... I'll worry about that when it becomes an issue - and I don't see that happening. 

I don't care for the "muted" colors Apple has gone with since the introduction of Apple Silicon. The backs of the iMac look amazing, but the fronts and the stand look hideous. These phone colors (if true) are all hideous. Black or white are apparently the only options I'll have if I go with the iPhone model, or the dark Blue if I go with a Pro model

I currently have the Pacific Blue iPhone 12 Pro and love the color.

mikethemartian said:

I’m surprised that it didn’t support SVG before.

To be fair, I've been adding vector .eps and .ai files to my keynote documents for many years.

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Does anyone else think that paying $400 for 32GB of RAM or $200 for 512GB of SSD space is a bit expensive? Like perhaps four times what the parts should cost? I guess we will just have to upgrade them our... oh snap!

Tell you what, grab yourself some RAM and an SSD at any cost you choose, then try and put them in yourself. Let us know how it works out. The cost of parts isn't the whole story.