Affinity is already doing this. Pay once and get the software.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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I have used Affinity for about 5 minutes. Not because it's bad, but because I'm not a designer and I'd first need to watch ten hours of YouTube before I can make a decent template for whatever. And no time for that yet
But I did buy the full suite, just because (1) everything I would ever make with it is my own property. (2) I own the software, not rent it and (3) fuck Adobe it can die in a ditch. I'll pay a 100 euros to your competition just because they are not you.
That's why I love Affinity so much
The only thing holding me back from Affinity is their lack of Android support
This seems incredibly over-ambitious.
It absolutely is. It also looks unsustainable, with such a name and icons branding.
I like the idea though.
He's always like this. I've bought from the guy and he always wants to avenge something, like he avenged Vantablack, which worked because now he has Black 4.0 (avaliable to those who already bought 3.0 for now, but already sold out) which is the blackest paint at the moment
But he also had stuff like his "open source" Pantone clone which he made because Pantone limited their color use to subscriptions.. which is very dumb because the whole point is not RGB colors, the whole point is that you can match your color in the design program to a real Pantone color sample that you can order and hold in your hands physically, and Stuart does not actually provide any pigment samples.
Inb4 lawsuit