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1203 points dagmx | 3 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.609s | source
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rcarmo ◴[30 Oct 25 17:48 UTC] No.45762874[source]▶
Well, I downloaded the Mac app, and here's what I don't like:

- Goodness gracious, that icon. And 3.5GB?????

- Requires a login (so I suppose no disconnected operation)

- Seems to jumble together the vector, bitmap and publishing apps (which I very much prefer to have as separate things)

Mostly everything I've been able to try in 30 minutes seems to work, but a 3.5GB app is a sad sign of the times.

Will most likely keep using the old versions until they die on me, especially on the iPad.

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1. jama211 ◴[30 Oct 25 17:51 UTC] No.45762906[source]▶
It’s because it’s four apps in one, they merged the affinity suite apps then added their own ai app too
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2. rcarmo ◴[30 Oct 25 17:54 UTC] No.45762942[source]▶
Fine, but the Mac mini I downloaded this in has very little internal storage, so I am not using this and will only keep the old designer and publisher apps around (Pixelmator is better for my use case)
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3. whywhywhywhy ◴[31 Oct 25 09:59 UTC] No.45770202[source]▶
Well the same Adobe apps would be around 10GB so it's a bit pointless to complain about it.