UK competition regulator finds Adobe’s purchase of Figma could reduce innovation
Good. It absolutely would reduce innovation.<p>Adobe have already canned XD, which was a poor alternative to Figma, but Adobe had to at least pretend to compete.<p>Problem is, even though Figma have captured a large proportion of the digital design market, they took on so much funding that their only real options are a purchase or IPO.<p>I don’t believe that subscriptions alone would bring in enough for the kind of returns the VCs are looking for, especially as it’s almost free for individual designers.<p>And so the enshittification begins.