affinity cloud

[Alice.Rexed]

Hello, does serif plan to develop an affinity cloud service following the example of adobe cloud? Or, for example, to develop a user account that already exists so that settings, resources, macros from an old device can be downloaded when switching to a new device? When working on a computer, I have to import them on the ipad every time I have a new macro, or resource. It would be cool that what you set up on mac can be seen on the ipad through the affinity cloud, or affinity account, the same thing that happens to purchases in the affinity store now. Should we wait for something like this?

[Old Bruce]

Hi and welcome to the forums ,

30 minutes ago, Alice.Rexed said:

does serif plan to develop an affinity cloud service

I doubt it. This is because all three applications have trouble dealing with the current flavours of Clouds as well as some local networks.

 

[wonderings]

On 9/6/2021 at 2:38 PM, Old Bruce said:

Hi and welcome to the forums ,

I doubt it. This is because all three applications have trouble dealing with the current flavours of Clouds as well as some local networks.

 

Also Adobe you are paying monthly with recurring revenue, Affinity is a one time purchase, how long should they offer cloud services for free after purchase before jumping to a subscription plan?

[Patrick Connor]

@Alice.Rexed

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums  

Many customers have asked how to easily copy settings and content from one computer to another, but we do not have anything like that yet. Some potential corporate customers ask for this type of feature for some of their needs (justifying replacing Adobe for example) so it comes up a lot. A few larger educational and business customers already prefer to pay annually for the Affinity software, and consequently will get version 2.0 etc as part of that arrangement, but that is not our sales model for individual customers, which is a one off purchase and will continue to be so for anyone who wants it. If it could be done securely and smoothly I would love to see some better ways of doing what you describe.

[PaulEC]

22 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

Many customers have asked how to easily copy settings and content from one computer to another,

I'm not sure if this works in all cases (I suspect not on iPad), but when I upgraded to a new PC a while back I simply copied the Affinity appdata files from the old PC to the new one on a flash drive. This gave me exactly the same settings and content as I had before. That was several months ago and everything seems to be working fine. Maybe there's some downside to doing it this way but, at least in my case, it was a really quick and easy way to do it. 

[Komatös]

I don't trust any cloud except my own. 

There are so many advantages to keeping your data yourself instead of entrusting it to a third party. Especially if you share sensitive business data with others.

Buy a Synology Diskstation, QNAP or RaspberryPi with nextCloud and manage your own cloud.  Ok, not everyone is that tech-savvy, but everyone knows someone who is.