Canva has bought Affinity, Designer, Publisher and Photo.
I have Affinity Photo 1 but I saw nothing of value in Photo 2.
It will be interesting to see what happens now.
C'mon David, its not as though I sold my soul to the devil when I bought the Affinity Suite. It was something like $100. And no I do not regret it for one minute I'm now using AP daily ( I have 10 years worth of photos to process for an update to my website) in place of PS CS6. It works. In combination with Luminar Neo it is far superior to PS CS6. I accept that Designer isn't going to replace Draw anytime soon, but Publisher is great for assembling booklets or PDF presentations (way better than MS Powerpoint) . We have to accept unless you go Adobe you will need a combination of tools to achieve your aims. So be it. I'm never going to persevere with PP, its just way too clunky and missing important tools to do what I need, even though it is installed on the PC.
And lets remember Corel had to row back on its subscription model, simply because it doesn't have the traction that Adobe has. If Canva is as stupid to go Subscription only with Affinity it too will suffer and I will vote with my feet. I can live with what I have now, just like I'm still with CDGS 2018 until Corel either fixes the bugs I logged as a beta tester or it has something new that is of use to me.
hywelharris said:And lets remember Corel had to row back on its subscription model, simply because it doesn't have the traction that Adobe has. If Canva is as stupid to go Subscription only with Affinity it too will suffer and I will vote with my feet.
At this time, at least, they are explicitly stating that they will not go subscription-only:
The Affinity and Canva Pledge.
Things always change! I believe that Canva will learn how low the profits truly are with Affinity in a year or so.
Yeah, I received the email containing that pledge. I can't put much faith in it considering Canva's development was funded by private equity firms. Those types of "vulture capitalists" are notorious for going back on their word. It's all part of chasing after the biggest short term gains possible. If there are no short term gains to be had then it's all about cutting costs to the bone.
Serif has an excess of 45 million pounds over the last 3 years. Not bad for what they charge, eh? Especially since they took near 10 years before the first paid version 2.
Serif according to the web publishes 16 other software applications besides Affinity. I believe they only sold Affinity. The question is, did they dump the least profitable product line? The other question that begs is how profitable are the other 16 products.
What I see is that from Version 1.10.5.132 to Version 2.4 Affinity produced a disappointing, (to many long time Affinity users) update. For me the Photo update was not worth the cost, I was a bit surprised because of all the talk about Affinity the release was so poor. I'm surprised that CorelDRAW is still described as the flagship of Corel products.
Serif only has the three applications at this time. The figure I quoted was for the Affinity applications. You are looking at old information as regards the others. It's one thing to hold the intellectual rights to applications, it's another to sell them to contribute to the bottom-line.
I own the 1.x versions of all three. I only updated Affinity Publisher to v.2.x. APhoto isn't even installed anymore--didn't last but a few months here. I rarely use AD. I cannot use APub for my daily work.
For that matter, only publications that use .cdr files that need updating or for personal projects do I even fire up CD. I stopped upgrading at version 2018. My large format work is pretty much a thing of the past these days.