Title: Adobe has sort of a monopoly on the creative tools market. Nobody seriously considers an alternative for their Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc, and for some people, these are truly the only products which can satisfy their sophisticated needs. However, there are more and more small (independent) creators of all kinds, who do not need all the uber features of the professional products but would rather appreciate an intuitive UI, cheaper price, and friendlier customer support. Every kid today is either a blogger, vlogger or web designer and it seems to me like quite a big market that would easily turn away from Adobe, had anyone created an alternative product with 40% of functionality that works flawlessly (!).<p>I recently had to interact with Adobe support, and my experience was quite terrible. I was also looking for a simple software to stitch together my GoPro videos but was left out with either free iMovie&#x2F;Quick, which are too basic or a super-expensive Premiere.
Both times I was wondering, how come there&#x27;s only Adobe on the market, why nobody dares to compete with them. So, HN, what do you think, why?<p>P.S.
I tried using Pixelmator (non-free), GIMP, OpenShot and a few more open-source editors - they don&#x27;t stand the competition.
On the other hand, I use and love Sketch, and would really appreciate Sketch-grade competitors for the above mentioned Adobe products.
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