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by toddmorey·11y ago·view on hn ↗
I am continually amazed by the guys at Serif. First, they are offering Designer at £29.99. Secondly, in spite of the trumpeted GPU preview updates in CC 2015, Affinity Designer just blows Illustrator away in rendering and moving around the document. It's really impressive and ends up being much more pleasant to work in.
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Too bad it is Apple-only.
Not to take anything away from the Serif guys, they’re doing a fantastic job, but most of the underlaying value of these software packages (Affinity Designer, Pixelmator, Sketch, iDraw, etc.) come from the strong frameworks in place on Apple’s platforms (i.e. CoreGraphics, Quartz, Metal, etc.). Moving to another platform would mean to either find replacements or having to roll their own, which they probably wouldn’t want to do. There is nothing bad about focus. I’d much rather have a platform-specific, focused tool that does a great job than having cross platform, half-assed set of barely decent tools like what Adobe does with their desktop apps.