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Yeah, it wasn’t Apple that killed Flash, it was Adobe. It died the moment Adobe bought Macromedia.

Just think, if Adobe hadn’t bungled Flash or prematurely killed off Fireworks, they could be owning the modern digital design space right now, rather than desperately trying to catch up to Figma and Sketch with XD.

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And slowing down the entire design space because of closed PSD format driving out competitions and Photoshop is so slow compared to apps like Affinity Photo as its legacy code must be in the way to employ any radical improvements.

Someone needs to take over this space.

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