They released a bunch of apps for creatives last year. That was the signal, no?
azeemba 12 minutes ago [-]
A single job posting for an engagement team doesn't really tell you if its a company strategy or not.
Directors hire on random ideas all the time and then pivot as needed
roboror 5 minutes ago [-]
>A single job posting for an engagement team
A single job posting for an engagement team in Poland.
wwalexander 14 minutes ago [-]
I much prefer the interface of Pixelmator and Pages to Photoshop and InDesign, and paying once (for the non-AI-augmented version of Pixelmator, which Apple indicate will continue to receive some manner of updates going forward) is a nice plus.
It’s unfortunate there’s not a real Illustrator equivalent; Pixelmator has okay enough vector editing and export support for my needs, but notably will render the canvas rasterized at whatever the nominal resolution is even when zoomed in editing an SVG. Vector exports work as expected, just the editing is rasterized. Still, a small price to pay for not paying monthly for Adobe’s mountain of crufty malware.
badrequest 12 minutes ago [-]
Probably safer to assume that they always had someone serving in this position and they recently left.
josefrichter 12 minutes ago [-]
Side note to author: the web renders really bad on mobile
roboror 3 minutes ago [-]
Renders poorly on desktop too.
cryo32 10 minutes ago [-]
Really not interested in this one. There is no data portability as none of the file formats they use for anything are documented and they are shovelling you into an eternal subscription model. At least Adobe file formats are well documented and have importers on pretty everything else so you can escape if you need to. I can open illustrator and photoshop files in a load of other apps, including open source. Pixelmator and their office stuff, nope.
I’ve been in this trap before and I’m only interested in portable, documented, non subscription stuff.
I’ve moved to Darktable, Inkscape and libreoffice here mostly for my needs. I don’t really need photoshop equivalent.
madebysnacks 27 minutes ago [-]
Apple should buy Sketch
cosmic_cheese 6 minutes ago [-]
I'm on the fence on this idea. I think it depends on how well it's doing financially, basically to what extent has Figma eaten its lunch.
I never boarded the Figma train because I prefer the UI of Sketch, as well as its local-first approach and how its file format is publicly documented so I actually own my data. I do worry about it going under though, and if Apple buying it up is the only way for that to happen so be it.
If nothing else it'd keep it out of Adobe's hands which is worth a lot on its own.
mortenjorck 5 minutes ago [-]
Sketch lost the market to Figma, and now Figma is losing the market to vibe coding.
I'm not sure what the value proposition of Sketch is these days apart from local, non-cloud editing (although you can even get that with a pretty decent UI these days with Lunacy).
cosmic_cheese 2 minutes ago [-]
Vector screen-destined assets. Illustrator is print-centric and awkward for the use case, and while Photoshop is technically capable of it that's not what it's made for (also, Adobe CC is just way too bloated for its own good). Figma is oriented around mockups and not as good for assets.
There are also platforms which are less vibe-friendly, and old style mockups can still be useful when nailing down a design system across platforms.
LoganDark 3 minutes ago [-]
Sketch has always been the app I use for quick throwing-together of things. Figma seems designed for specifically corporate design documents which is icky.
kwanbix 16 minutes ago [-]
What we need. Less competition.
LoganDark 5 minutes ago [-]
this has nothing to do with creativity app users, and everything to do with enshittification -- locking features that used to be free behind a monthly subscription, and ensuring new features are not offered to owners, but rather only available through renting. it has nothing to do with competition either
Rendered at 19:53:19 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Directors hire on random ideas all the time and then pivot as needed
A single job posting for an engagement team in Poland.
It’s unfortunate there’s not a real Illustrator equivalent; Pixelmator has okay enough vector editing and export support for my needs, but notably will render the canvas rasterized at whatever the nominal resolution is even when zoomed in editing an SVG. Vector exports work as expected, just the editing is rasterized. Still, a small price to pay for not paying monthly for Adobe’s mountain of crufty malware.
I’ve been in this trap before and I’m only interested in portable, documented, non subscription stuff.
I’ve moved to Darktable, Inkscape and libreoffice here mostly for my needs. I don’t really need photoshop equivalent.
I never boarded the Figma train because I prefer the UI of Sketch, as well as its local-first approach and how its file format is publicly documented so I actually own my data. I do worry about it going under though, and if Apple buying it up is the only way for that to happen so be it.
If nothing else it'd keep it out of Adobe's hands which is worth a lot on its own.
I'm not sure what the value proposition of Sketch is these days apart from local, non-cloud editing (although you can even get that with a pretty decent UI these days with Lunacy).
There are also platforms which are less vibe-friendly, and old style mockups can still be useful when nailing down a design system across platforms.