When can we buy a copy of Affinity Suite V3?

[Archangel]

This may be jumping the gun a little but are there any guesses when Affinity V3 will be available?

What hardware and OSes will it support? Will it still support Windows 10 with extended support from Microsoft or the other option with up to five years of extended support of security patches?

Or are the plans not fully fleshed out yet?

[PaoloT]

I heard it will only be for Linux and Android, with Mac, Windows and iPad versions coming later.

 

[h_d]

I believe it may work with a jailbroken Nokia E6.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Archangel said:

This may be jumping the gun a little...

More like leaving the planet the gun is on & 'jumping' to Mars or beyond!

Seriously though, you have been a forum member long enough to know the staff are not going to say anything about when a V3 customer beta will be available, much less a retail version.

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, PaoloT said:

I heard it will only be for Linux and Android, with Mac, Windows and iPad versions coming later.

They Affinity Canva have it finished they just debating on whether to name it Linroid or Andux. I doubt Windows and Mac will ever see it. [Very sad face emoticon]

[mopperle]

10 hours ago, Archangel said:

This may be jumping the gun a little but are there any guesses when Affinity V3 will be available?

What hardware and OSes will it support? Will it still support Windows 10 with extended support from Microsoft or the other option with up to five years of extended support of security patches?

Or are the plans not fully fleshed out yet?

The answer to all your questions is: 42

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, mopperle said:

The answer to all your questions is: 42

Ultimately, yes.

[PaulEC]

10 hours ago, Archangel said:

This may be jumping the gun a little but are there any guesses when Affinity V3 will be available?

What hardware and OSes will it support? Will it still support Windows 10 with extended support from Microsoft or the other option with up to five years of extended support of security patches?

Or are the plans not fully fleshed out yet?

I don't care about all this stuff. All I want to know about v3 is, will the Affinity icons have round or square corners.

[Alfred]

7 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

I don't care about all this stuff. All I want to know about v3 is, will the Affinity icons have round or square corners.

Round and square are very old-fashioned. We need squircles!

[mopperle]

9 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

They Affinity Canva have it finished they just debating on whether to name it Linroid or Andux. I doubt Windows and Mac will ever see it. [Very sad face emoticon]

All wrong. As Canvas is aimed to enterprise customers, AF will run on z/OS only, so you will at minimum need a z13s for around 300k USD

[Archangel]

9 hours ago, R C-R said:

More like leaving the planet the gun is on & 'jumping' to Mars or beyond!

Seriously though, you have been a forum member long enough to know the staff are not going to say anything about when a V3 customer beta will be available, much less a retail version.

Very true. I just wanted to start a light hearted discussion.

I am going through difficult times as are many of us. A little humour goes a long way.

[PaoloT]

It is true that, our mood hidden behind some joking, the future of Affinity is very important for many of us. These are times of big changes in how we relate to the tools we use. And the direction the development of these apps will take will mean having or not a choice between freedom or moral compromise.

Paolo

 

[PaoloT]

Thinking to the future of Affinity, I went to read again a short essay by my old teacher, Giorgio Agamben. In commenting the use of the word "device" from Foucault, he goes back to the original meaning of the word. A device is what creates relations between the parts, putting them into a particular order or way of working. Devices shape the way we think.

In the end, a device, or a tool, is what makes us, as living beings/substance having relations with the world, subjects. We interact in a particular way with the world (our ideas, our community, our everyday work) through the device and the way it makes us behave. There is no direct relation possibile between us and the world, without intermediation from the device.

This is why I feel anxious for the future of Affinity. Take for example the refusal, in InDesign, of the word "master" referred to the pages on which other pages are modeled. That word goes back to the idea of "teacher" ("magister"), to a method of transmitting knowledge. This idea is being replaced by an idea of leaders shaping the way of working/thinking, and followers creating consensus on a common knowledge. The ancient word can now be abandoned with ease, justifying this choice by giving it a different meaning than the one it actually has.

I started referring to my old teacher. It's obvious that I don't like the idea of getting rid of teachers, of the method of transmission of knowledge they represent, and that I don't want a device to reshape the way I work/think without letting me enter into a relation with the ideas of my teachers. So, yes, I too continue to ask me how the next version of Affinity will be.

Paolo

 

[Alfred]

34 minutes ago, PaoloT said:

The ancient word can now be abandoned with ease, justifying this choice by giving it a different meaning than the one it actually has.

Language changes! All we can say is that the word now has a meaning which differs from its original meaning.

[PaoloT]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

Language changes! All we can say is that the word now has a meaning which differs from its original meaning.

As in 1984, words are being eliminated one after the other. Their meaning doesn’t matter, only the suspect of their meaning must be considered. In fact, the actual vocabulary used by average is constantly shrinking, and with the words also the ability of understanding meaning and creating relations between meanings is becoming irrelevant.

Paolo

 

[AffinityMakesMeWonder]

My take on coming version 3.x on Affinity Suite is:

Although I love Affinity Suite, but, to longing for V3 when V2 is more or less still in some beta stage after 20 month since release, is ridiculous…

Also, when iPad version of Affinity Suite is loosing ground to the desktop versions more and more (new functionality is left out in iPad versions) it ain’t time for V3 before iPad is catching up…

[PaulEC]

In all seriousness, I'm in no hurry to pay for a new version of the Affinity Suite. I'm rather hoping that there'll be a few more improvements and a lot of bug fixes in v2 before they expect any more money from me!

[Bryan Rieger]

As it currently stands with all of the missing features and mounting bugs in v2, I won't be upgrading to v3.

If v2 begins to see real, positive, and consistent change in the coming months, then I'd be more optimistic about v3. Without it, a very hard pass.

[Granddaddy]

22 hours ago, Archangel said:

are there any guesses when Affinity V3 will be available?

What have you heard from Canva/Serif that implies there will be a compelling reason to buy a V3 if and when it becomes available?

[PaoloT]

9 hours ago, Alfred said:

Language changes! All we can say is that the word now has a meaning which differs from its original meaning.

I will only hint that "words" are only a graphic sign, that can have different meanings. Dictionaries often have the same word written twice or more, each time with totally different meanings. They are called "headword" in English, "lemma" in Italian, "lemme" in French, "Stichwort" in German. The fact that one of the meanings has an offensive content shouldn't touch the others, whose only fault is to have the same look.

This would be even more complicate when moving away from English. Going back to the original place of the word, "pagina mastro" has nothing to share with the offensive word. "Mastro Geppetto", the father (or "parent woodworker") of Pinocchio, is just the artisan who knows how to do woodwork. But then, that tale has so many symbolic implications that I've for sure triggered some of the bad ones.

Paolo

 

 

[Alfred]

11 minutes ago, PaoloT said:

I've seen that my previous reply has been moderated.

Wow, really? I wasn’t aware that anything you wrote could be regarded as offensive.

13 minutes ago, PaoloT said:

Dictionaries often have the same word written twice or more, each time with totally different meanings.

Words that look and/or sound like the same word are arguably not the same word if their meanings are different.

[PaoloT]

26 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Wow, really?

Apparently, not. Maybe it was only in temporary moderation, or just late in being published. It has now reappeared. Happy not to have offended anybody, then.

26 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Words that look and/or sound like the same word are arguably not the same word if their meanings are different.

I support this idea. Take, for example, "affinity". It has different meanings, despite looking and sounding always the same. It's sympathy with someone, strong feeling, attitude to some field of study, or a technical term kept from chemistry. I also heard that there is something related to software…

It is a multifaceted word, as many others. But it changes with each different meaning. Even if I understand it is sometimes very difficult to understand the border between sympathy and strong feeling.

Paolo

 

[Archangel]

4 hours ago, Bryan Rieger said:

As it currently stands with all of the missing features and mounting bugs in v2, I won't be upgrading to v3.

If v2 begins to see real, positive, and consistent change in the coming months, then I'd be more optimistic about v3. Without it, a very hard pass.

I agree that Affinity needs to have a period where it concentrates on fixing bugs and stability issues before increasing the feature load which will no doubt introduce new bugs as new programming often does. Otherwise, bugs will remain ingrained and become harder to ferret out. Hopefully RTL will arrive before V3 although I feel it maybe after V3 before that feature becomes available.