mine is BlackRock if you consider that an tech company if not then my second is meta facebook

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    Nobody mentioned Adobe yet. They’re absolutely the worst. They offer creative products behind a 70$ / month paywall and they hold a monopoly in their field. Only need their software sporadically? Sorry, no plan for you.

    They haven’t significantly updated some of their software in like 20 years. I currently have the displeasure of using After Effects again and apart from not even supporting system dark mode on macOS or even fullscreen mode, there are all kinds of weird small bugs that you just get used to when using the software for a while.

    Fuck Adobe.

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      Remember kids. It is always morally correct to pirate adobe products.

      I’m a graphic designer and honestly, been thinking long and hard about switching to Affinity. Affinity Designer even seems like it would streamline most of my workflow.

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        I use Affinity sometimes, but PS, AI, & AE rule the roost because they are just better at most tasks.

        PSSm: Apple Motion flies way below the radar and can do a LOT of things better/more elegantly than AE.

        I delivered two seasons worth of graphics for a network show, and 85-90% was done completely in Motion.

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        I switched to Affinity! It’s great. Not all of the features are there but most of them. It’s also much less buggy and the interface is way better thought out.

        They don’t make a replacement for After Effects though, that’s why I’m stuck with it for one project.

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          That’s my experience. Less features (like still no object blending in designer), but much faster and smoother over all. Admittedly I haven’t used an Adobe product in a few years, but when I first switched I was amazed at how much more performant the affinity suite was.

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        Affinity designer is a great tool if you are looking to use it. I can’t say for the newer versions due to reasons, but some 4 years ago that I tried it, it absolutely blew me away. Easy to use, lots of advanced features, stable, great pricing. And they got a v2 as well, unfortunately v1 customers will need to rebut though at a discounted price.

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      Have you heard of Oracle? It’s the database version of Adobe, but maybe worse. They seem to deploy more lawyers than technical staff.

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      They’re also the company who mainstreamed the software subscription model.

      It used to be that only services required subscriptions. Applications would be a one time payment. But, Adobe converted to the subscription model and because they hold a monopoly over the design space, people/companies had no choice but to go along. Once they were successful, every business in the world decided that they also wanted that sweet monthly payment and now software licensing sucks.

      I refuse to even pirate Adobe products on principle.

      TL;DR Fuck Adobe, use open source.

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        The suite itself. Being able to drop photoshop files into after effects and after effects files into premiere timelines while being able to go back and edit any piece is huge for efficiency.