And as these machines are limited to 16 GB of RAM, 2 displays and - the point of this article - has software compatibility/availability issues the early adopters are either people using the M1 Mac as a secondary machine (to their Intel Mac or their iPad Pro) or were entry level device types who relied mostly on first party software and web/browser stuff anyway. Add in 1Q 2021 and that is 5-6 million people that have bought M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini and 13' MBPs. M1 Macs were only available less than half that time, plus people and especially enterprises didn't stop buying Intel Macs either. Intel macOS apps (hundreds of millions of devices)ĬhromeOS platform support (according to the latest Statcounter have 2% market share, Google claims that they are almost 5%)

There was up until a month of so ago, a missing selection feature (select similar) in Designer that was irritating, but they’ve since added this.Are you kidding me? You believe that these developers should make native M1 Mac ports their #1 priority when these Macs are like 0.5% of the market at best? Throw in similar costs for Designer and Publisher (I’ve got Mac and Pc versions, plus their iOS releases) and compare that to what I’d have spent on Adobe and Quark Xpress, and the money saved has probably paid for my MBP.įor my uses (I’m a graphic and web designer), there’s nothing missing. I think I bought Affinity Photo for the intro offer of £19.99 six years ago, (Designer 7 years ago), and they’ve provided free updates ever since. They’re not perfect - I often cuss at Photo and Designer as they do things differently to Adobe that sometimes aren’t as user friendly, and new versions of Adobe software are packed with new features Affinity apps don’t have, but the huge savings in cost, and the fact they do everything for my own personal requirements, keeps me more than happy. The missing element for a while was a DTP app, and I needed to replace Quark (didn’t get on with the Adobe DTP app), but now Publisher has completed the set and all my work needs are covered.

But when Affinity turned up, I jumped in straight away. I used Illustrator and Photoshop from their first releases, and even ran training sessions for designers, so I was pretty heavily embedded in the Adobe system. There was up until a month of so ago, a missing selection feature (select similar) in Designer that was irritating, but they’ve since added this. Click to expand.For my uses (I’m a graphic and web designer), there’s nothing missing.

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