• merthyr1831@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    even if they keep lifetime licenses for now, it’s blatantly obvious how Canva plans to use Embrace, Extend, Extinguish to move people to a subscription service for newer releases.

    If adobe can do it with Photoshop et al. without losing its brand reputation, then Affinity will follow suit in due course.

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      7 months ago

      Yep, they’ll probably stop updating the Affinity product and launch a new product line with annual subscriptions. Probably cloud-based.

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        7 months ago

        I was more expecting Affinity to integrate and replace features with Canva until a subscription is all but required for basic functionality.