Chills

Good Question. I would be happy with "just the poplar" to start with, and others can be included over time. The other thing that would be more useful is bar code generations for ISBNs and ISSNs (at least) Though as I type this I have a horrible thought coming into my head.... will this sort of add-on come from a Canva subscription? @Ash did suggest that V3 might have a subscription version with additional [Canva?] things on subscription? This would be a BIG turn-off for me. Which is why I am here and not still using Adobe as my primary suite. Affinity professional tools should have professional tools (QR and bar-code) as standard.

It shows nothing of the sort. The developers work on build numbers in the VCS. The published version numbers come from marketing, not the developers. Marketing are pushing a completely different agenda to the developers.

There is a Worldwide standard, but Creatives by their nature don't follow it... 🙂 and in Marketing, "new" is an old word. Seriously, there probably is an accepted standard for version control for software BUT if you note V1.5 is build 27332.23.4.5 so the version control system for SW is not the same as the marketing release numbers. Look at OSX for example after 10.9 (the X in OSX being "10" ) it went to 10.10 as opposed to 10.1 and then to 10.11 For Adobe CS the difference between CS5.0 and CS5.5 was far greater than the small incremental changes between CS5.5 and CS6.0 So version numbers mean nothing other than it is the next release. The Build numbers (where you can see them) show a bit more. However, these numbers are completely orthogonal to any other product. Even from the same developers, let alone another company.

Good Luck with that Ubuntu changes version more often than Windows and support ends for each version far faster than for windows. If Ubunto is still there at that time.... The other thing is many of the components in Ubuntu come from 3rd parties. Your problems aren't Windows Security patches but Linux security.

Fair enough, but we are arguing between insignificant and miniscule. Especially as that 4% is for well over 500 different distributions and versions. (most of which are obsolete and unsupported) If the video treated them in the same way it split the windows versions, Linux would not appear at all. This is the problem of fragmentation and distros liable to change at any time regardless of any supposed roadmap. Black magic did their Linux version based on ONE commercially supported Linux that they could customize. When that version went obsolete (as the vast majority of Linuxes do without warning) they swapped to ONE other commercially supported Linux rather than trying a Flatpak. So it is not 4% of the market but 0.1 + 0,001 + 0.02 + 0.003 + .... Etc any one of which could change (or go obsolete) at any time without warning. The other problem is that whereas Apple Inc. and Microsoft Inc have NDA's they also have licences with various codec producers. So until Linux Inc. can sign NDA's and buy licences it will always be missing some codecs. BMD did buy licences for codecs for their (dongled and paid for ) Linux version, but they had 60 users spending $1/4 million each for them. For Windows, there are compatibility modes that work for 99% of apps going back to Win 95. What is missing are some of the hardware drivers for some of the obsolete hardware.

Actually it is 2.76% after 30 years, not 13. I have seen stats saying nearly 4%, but that is for ALL of the 500+ different Linux distros. That is the problem Linux is always "going to be the next big thing" for 30 years. Other than on servers, it isn't, and won't be. This video makes interesting watching on the stats. NOTE it takes every major version of Windows as a separate OS but lumps ALL the Linux versions and distros as one lot. That is the problem Linux is badly fragmented and all distros and versions change asynchronously with no roadmap. Also, the multiple different licences also change asynchronously and can do so at any time. For Linux to be a serious host, much has to change in the way it is developed. See any of the multiple Conference videos of Linux explaining this for the last decade (or more). IT is highly unlikely to happen. As noted above it makes far more sense to support chrome rather than Linux(es) .

I don't think this is going to be a priority. People would prefer the programs are stable and have the features needed. Having worked in several countries, Eglish works just fine for apps like these. Especially as many will be using keyboard shortcuts most of the time.

Obviously they are variable fuzzy edged groups. Your comment shows you will have trouble grasping the concepts, so I won't bother. It has more to do with what and how they do it and in collaboration with whom than their specific academic qualification.

Yes to the long game with free Affinity licences to schools and non-profits. This could, if not replace Adobe certainly make Canva a major player in the amateur users up to mid-range professionals. I am not sure the high-end professionals will jump, yet, or those that are welded to other Adobe apps not in, nor likely to being the Affinity range. EG Audio and video.

I could be wrong but then I had not been aware of Canva (and it's 75million users). Though I do know a LOT of amateurs with dodgy Adobe licenses who have never heard of Affinity but probably do use Canva stuff as well. Remember Affinity has only been a thing a short while and "only" has 3-4million users. If Canva to get 10% of their users to go for Affinity, that trebles the Affinity user base to over 10 million. With more resources from Canva Affinity can have some serious work done for V3 to increase its inroads to the professional market.

They have a HUGE number of amateur users, of whom many are probably still using Adobe CS1-6 on "borrowed" licences. If Canva could convert these people to the "inexpensive" legal Affinity licences, it could double the Affinity user base and give Canva a lot of income. This would help take the Affinity users to a substantial number and with resources added to construct V3 a serious challenger to Adobe CC. for me the only missing app is a Lightroom-Bridge DAM that links the Photo, Illustrator and Publisher. For the time being the boat has sailed for any video app. Especially with the Free/$300 Resolve out there and challenging Adobe.

An interesting comment from the owner of a large Australian company on subscriptions. It's about 1:36 in to the video

They will, but not to you because: 1 The ideas have already been implemented by Adobe (or some other competitor). 2 I (or someone else) sent them in before you did Your ideas are neither novel nor new. Unless you and your [expsen$ive] lawyers can prove otherwise in court., 3 they have already looked at it, and it is not worth the cost of doing it for the number of users who might want it. They won't say this as they don't mind other developers spending time and resource on something that is not commercial viable. Slightly more seriously, it is to the benefit of the users in general that they listen to users and implement what "we" want, up to a point.

That's why you need a spilling and grimmer chocker.

From my point of view, now the dust has settled, is that V2 will do what we need. Primarily Publisher, then some designer and very occasionally Photo. Assuming that Affinity do what they have said, in a few years we will move to V3 perpetual licences. For me, that is enough. I will not have to worry (if I am still breathing). The team I work with producing a magazine can do all we need (at the moment) in V2.4 so if they get as far as V3 perpetual that will be all they need. At this point, we are talking 10 years on from here before they have to change if Affinity goes to hell in a hand basket and or only subscription etc. As I point out to some of my lot, I am still using Lightroom 6.14 (dated 2007) that is 7 years old and does what I need. It runs on Win11 As we are using Windows which, at the moment, does not work like OSX, and we can use old SW on the latest PC's if we need to. Apple has a far more aggressive approach to stopping old SW working on new versions of the OS which is a pity. My old Intel MAC HW will take one newer version of OSX, but AFAICS CS6 is not stable on that. So unlike our PC's we have our MACs frozen in time. Though, as Apple has only just gone to their ARM based CPUs (their 4th CPU in the life of the MACs) they would be on this for a decade or so. Therefore, for me there is no panic. The perpetual licences have, as many have said here, removed much of the short-medium term risk. Time to get back to work until we see what the next updates bring.