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Apple buys Pixelmator

I was big a fan of Pixelmator when they were just starting out. A simple Photoshop replacement, without being a mammoth of a download. Unfortunately the software never really took off. It worked (almost always, emphasis on 'almost'). This was to be the photo editor with advanced features without the fat of PS. Never really got there.

Eventually I moved on and went with Krita, an open-source bitmap editor that fulfills the same role as Pixelmator (and eventually does it better, some might argue)

This week Apple bought Pixelmator. The question is for what? What is Apple going to do do with it? Absorve the technologies into iCloud Photos? Launch a new bitmap editor of its own that is a rebranded and improved version of Pixelmator. Keep Pixelmator for a couple of years until it gets the axe? I don't know but my feeling is that Pixelmator is going the end up like Atom when Microsoft bought it to include some of its tech in VSCode and then effectively killed it.


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