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Now, for the serious business…
sneil69 wrote:Alfred wrote:Welcome, Sam, and thanks for sharing your thoughts about what Canva has in store for those of us who have Affinity version 2 licences. I just wish they weren’t keeping us waiting so long before the big reveal!
The reason it has taken this long is, the application has been written from ground up with a the help from Canva's dev team and direction and design by Ash & Co. (imho) - This is the gamble Affinity has taken and they will lose a lot of users if it will a web based application (Which most certainly) will.
I would be amazed it is otherwise.
Wait, do you have insider knowledge on what's happening behind the scenes? Blink twice for yes. 
If they offer both, with maybe access to the web version being strictly subscription-based (which, err, makes sense, you'd be using their servers and having the convenience of advanced collaboration features and universal access regardless of which device you'd be using, after all), that would actually be an improvement, and even if it delayed the app's further development, or if, worse still, it set it back in features (kind of like when Apple redid their entire iWork suite in the process and somewhat nerfed it in the process), many users would be ok with it, others would stick with Affinity v2 and wait for the new solution to catch up, etc.
Killing off native Affinity apps, as compiled and released for the two OSes and the two architectures they run on (so, four variants, and in fact soon to be only three, as Apple is never going back to Intel and will deprecate Rosetta, stop releasing new major macOS versions for Intel Macs next year and stop supporting older ones altogether in three years), is an absolute disaster. It'll be comparable to Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia, or maybe even more stupid as at least Adobe had a couple of reasons to do it and didn't radically change its business model right then and there (I mean, they tried capitalising on Flash and failed miserably, but they kept selling packaged software), and no matter how promising that message vkbellis shared may sound or how nice Patrick actually is, as Ali stated, the fact of the matter is that he's no longer running the show, Canva is. It's not Patrick or Serif we don't trust, it's Canva.
I've always felt that the acquisition was a bit out of character, but figured that Canva could stand to benefit from adding to their offering with a set of native apps, and thus becoming a bit more respectable in the design world. If they go this route, and ripping up their pledge so shortly after they signed it (I mean, it isn't much of a pledge if it lasts for a couple of months and applies only to the current version; it may even be construed as a ruse to extract more money from naïve customers instead of being upfront about it and preparing them for an inevitable transition), I suspect it might actually damage their brand further. My €0,02.
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