When I first heard of Affinity I thought to myself, “Wow! What a nice competitor to Adobe”
The bundle was paid with a perpetual license. Pay once and boom. And I DID pay for the iPad bundle. I don’t want to admit it but here we are.
The thing about this is that Serif (the parent company behind Affinity) got acquired by Canva. Yes, That Canva.
Let’s look at the cancer which is The New Affinity:
What the fuck is this?
They want me to make a new Canva account.
Listen – I’m not the one to complain – But I already have a Serif account. This is not good in the slightest. But since they want to merge away from Serif and pour everything into Canva – then I’m down
This is really… Odd. for an app. But let’s open it and see how it phones home. (I already know it’s gonna E.T.)
It’s trying to connect to Amazon Web Services. And it has a consistent connection to these two:
If I look into the reverse DNSes of these servers, I can find this:
NetRange: 104.16.0.0 - 104.31.255.255
CIDR: 104.16.0.0/12
NetName: CLOUDFLARENET
Non-authoritative answer:
106.206.165.3.in-addr.arpa name = server-3-165-206-106.vie50.r.cloudfront.net.Quick reminder that neither Photo nor Designer (which I use) constantly phone home. I believe it has something to do with Canva AI which I’m not surprised with
It’s unsustainable. It’s not Affinity-like, and it’s definitely not something I’d defend, use or recommend, and it’s sad to see the only sensible competitor to Adobe disintegrating into VC hell that’s so antithetical to its purpose. These apps are used by professionals, not your high school teacher who could get away with AI.
Jesus fucking christ.