Great move.
Adobe already has a product identical to Figma called XD, it would be entirely ridiculous to let them further monopolize the digital design space buying the most popular competitor
Annoyingly, they already stopped updating XD with the expectation that the Figma deal will go through
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23769586/adobe-xd-discontinued-shutting-down-figma-design-app
XD
Figma balls, that is
I regretfully expected this comment.
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Fuck Adobe
I would like to be optimistic but if they are ready to spend 20 billions in the acquisition the might as well spare 1-2 extra billions to bribe the proper people.
More like 1-2 thousand. Our politicians are surprisingly cheap to bribe
The CMA isn’t staffed by politicians and politicians don’t appoint its staff.
If this doesn’t get stopped, then these rules are pointless. But I guess the same could be said for other recent acquisitions that did go through fine with only minor tweaks.
I thought this was already done? The Figma post sounded pretty final. I was pretty sad to read it but this news gives me some hope.
Not that Adobe doesn’t make good stuff, but I can’t imagine Figma thriving in the same way it has when Adobe just wants it to pull more $50/mo cloud subscriptions.
Cool full steam ahead for merging after the 19th then.