I wonder what percentage of tech businesses are created with the hopes that they'll be acquired in big purchases like this
I would say absolutely all of them. Tech is a speculation game first and foremost. Most technology does not do anything special, it is just marketed well. Figma is literally just online diagram drawing software, what is new about that?
It's not limited to tech industry, building a small brand up and then selling it is just MBA shit
This reminds me of a coworker who used to sign his emails with "-MBA" like he was a doctor. lol
I remember walking into a business school building when i was in college with a classmate right at the point I said to my classmate "yeah as if the world needs more fucking MBAs" and my co-anthropologist chuckled
Bunch of fuckin kids who went to school in suits stopped what they were doing to stare at us in absolute shock :horror:
The acquisition will strengthen Adobe’s web offerings.
Putting it lightly. Adobe's web software is embarrassing.
i know its a really crowded and tightly-contested field for "worst piece of windows workplace software" but i think adobe acrobat has to be crowned the winner for most bloated and useless piece of shit that has ever seen wide release, i hate it so fucking much
guess whose outlook is so fucked that they have to use outlook web for all their work, a lot of which is dealing with emails with attached pdfs
guess whose outlook web always wants to use acrobat to "preview" pdfs
guess whose acrobat web integration has a 50% chance to fail to load a given pdf "preview" and will just sit on loading forever
guess whose acrobat web integration consistently forgets that it knows any fonts any time the pdf is ever in an email that is outside the main window or in an attached email (which is like 80% of the time when i want to look at a pdf), and shows all the text as nicely-formatted error characters instead
guess who still has to have the acrobat activation service running full time in the background sucking up half the computers resources
im not even getting started on the acrobat main application
I come here to make a figma/LIGMA joke but I see I share a consciousness with the whole site. I love my brain linked global consciousness comrades :cat-trans:
Unsurprising, but this also sucks. Figma made great software and Adobe destroys everything they touch.
$20 billion is a steal for Adobe, strange that Figma sold for so low. Makes me wonder how much tech debt and also overwhelming investment Figma had sunk into them by vulture capitalists.
god DAMN it
Figma is so much better than anything Adobe has. I hate this shit so much
Figma is, essentially, a collaborative design application used for designing everything from mobile apps to websites. It's really helpful for building designs--everything from basic wireframes to hi-fi prototypes. You can export images and code to actually build whatever it is you want after you finish.
If you're doing UX design, it's incredibly helpful, much more than Adobe XD imo(but I'm still new at it).
also figma balls, obviously
Also @Pirate, how are you not a mod of this community yet? Reply and I'll mod you lol
There, it is finished, the FOSS takeover of technology is complete!
:dax-stoked:
Oh fuck yes, I used to prototype stuff on a pirated version of sketch. This rules, thanks.
