this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
222 points (95.5% liked)

Technology

59172 readers
2740 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
222
Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Stopthatgirl7 to c/technology
43 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The price of some Canva subscriptions are set to skyrocket next year following the company’s aggressive rollout of generative AI features. Global customers for Canva Teams — a business-orientated subscription that supports adding multiple users — can expect prices to increase by just over 300 percent in some instances. Canva says the increase is justified due to the “expanded product experience” and value that generative AI tools have added to the platform.

In the US, some Canva Teams users are reporting subscription increases from $120 per year for up to five users, to an eye-watering $500 per year. A 40 percent discount will be applied to bring that down to $300 for the first 12 months. In Australia, the flat $39.99 AUS (about $26 USD) per month fee for five users is switching to $13.50 AUS (about $9 USD) for each user. That means a team of five will pay at least 68 percent more, not withstanding any other discounts.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Will Affinity product line be the next as Canva bought them?

[–] grue 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Every proprietary software will be enshittified eventually; it's only a matter of time.

The only way to not be subject to the enshittification, in the long run, is to adopt a militant zero-tolerance policy against all proprietary software and insist on using only 100% Free Software instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I like this (and largely follow it), except that I occasionally need CMYK color space for printing, and GIMP makes that extreeeeeeeeemely difficult and annoying. That's why I use Affinity. I got the software for the single lifetime price and I'm hoping they let me keep it...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm in the same position. I prefer free software but there is none that does what Affinity does. If it goes subscription-only and they shut down the bought versions, it will have to be piracy time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah I'm not going to pay their subscription. The whole point was to avoid Adobe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Everyone prefers free until they have to contribute to actually making things better. Most popular opensource project are funded by corporations for a reason.

[–] fluxc0 3 points 2 months ago

if it goes subscription, atp i’ll just put up with adobe bullshit because i’m pretty sure if affinity goes that route they’ll forget what made them so good in the first place- not being adobe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm fine with (reasonably priced) paid software, that's why I use Affinity; it pretty much hits the sweet spot between affordability and capability. If there is a free software program that does what I need, I'll gladly use it, but I don't demand it, plus you really can't make FOSS developers develop what you need or want, while with paid software you have some leverage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eventually some pissed off engineer who knows a thing or two about color will create a conversion utility to allow GIMP to seamlessly work with CMYK.

That angry engineer might be you if you have friends who fill in the gaps within your own knowledge base.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I should research what would be required for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe Krita is the solution to your problem?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I’m still open to giving the Immich licensing model a chance.