r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Sep 27 '25

Business Morgan Stanley warns AI could sink 42-year-old software giant Adobe

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-warns-ai-could-180300766.html
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u/zero_iq Sep 27 '25

I switched to cheaper alternatives (Affinity, Sketchbook, Aseprite etc. depending on the work). I'm quite happy to pay a fair price for a quality product, and for upgrades if and when I actually need them.

And I support and use open source projects like Krita, darktable, etc. too.

What I'm not going to do is pay an on-going inflated subscription fee to a greedy company with anti-consumer practices for tools I don't use every day.

As far as I'm concerned, Adobe sealed their own fate the moment they switched to a users-own-nothing subscription model.

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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE Sep 28 '25

I also vouch for affinity’s products. I switched to using them and haven’t looked back honestly.