Adding a new app to the suite of applications

[pfgpowell]

I am very impressed with Photo, Publisher and Designer and they can stand side by side with Adobe's offerings. I wonder: have you considered also writing your own Office suite to take on Microsoft Word, Excel etc?

 

 

[Komatös]

Hi @pfgpowell and welcome to the forums?

Why should Serif “burn” money and personnel for something that is already available several times over and in some cases free of charge?

[pfgpowell]

2 hours ago, Komatös said:

Hi @pfgpowell and welcome to the forums?

Why should Serif “burn” money and personnel for something that is already available several times over and in some cases free of charge?

What a very odd response. Apart from Photoshop there is any number of photo editing apps avialable - Pixelmator, Fotor, Acorn - and some, like Gimp are free. Yet Serif decided to 'burn' money and personnel to develop Affinity Photo. And then went on to 'burn' more money and personnel to bring out Affinity Photo 2. So you think what with all the other apps around that was silly?

Then there's Affinity Publisher and Designer: there are perhaps not as many alternatives to Indesign and Illustrator as there are to Photoshop, but certainly several. Yet Serif did not baulk at 'burning' money and personnel to build their own apps. I suppose that also meets with your scorn? I mean, what WERE Serif thinking?

[fde101]

14 minutes ago, pfgpowell said:

Yet Serif decided to 'burn' money and personnel to develop Affinity Photo. And then went on to

Actually, Designer was first, Photo second.  Serif built the Affinity apps after having a long standing suite of design applications, the Plus series, which were Windows-only and which had code bases which were starting to show their age.  These creative design apps fall well into the scope of the applications they were already marketing prior to creating the suite.

An office suite of general business software would be a completely different line of apps with a completely different market segment in mind, which would be an entirely different type of venture when compared to what they are currently doing.  There are plenty of other applications they could consider which would be much more in line with their existing customer base and skill set, and they are having a hard time keeping up with the feature requests people are making for their existing apps anyway, so I don't think I agree that trying to stretch in this direction would be a good fit for them at this time.

[Pšenda]

19 hours ago, pfgpowell said:

Office suite

If you're talking about an Office suite, you should also consider the Affinity "Suite" - not the individual applications. And as far as I know, you won't find many free alternatives at this DTP "suite" level, unlike an Office suite.

P.S. Is Adobe, with its unlimited resources, already planning something similar?

[Twolane]

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Office suite to take on Microsoft Word, Excel

There's already a free Office suite that competes with the MS products. It's called LibreOffice. V24.8 has just been released.

[pfgpowell]

2 minutes ago, Twolane said:

There's already a free Office suite that competes with the MS products. It's called LibreOffice. V24.8 has just been released.

You miss the point. There are also alternative photo editing apps, some free, some not. My question was specifically about whether Serif had considered creating their own app alongside Photo, Publisher and Designer.