{"id":373504,"date":"2022-09-23T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?post_type=newsletters&p=373504"},"modified":"2022-09-26T07:29:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:29:12","slug":"298-all-aboard-the-acquisitions-train","status":"publish","type":"newsletters","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/newsletter\/298-all-aboard-the-acquisitions-train\/","title":{"rendered":"298: All Aboard the Acquisitions Train!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
[Geoff:]<\/strong> The news that Adobe is acquiring Figma<\/a> produced typical knee-jerk reactions in both directions. I’m not here to add to the noise; you already know how you feel about it and my take isn’t any different than what you can already find in your Twitter timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One thing I’ll throw in, though, is how easy it is to feel something<\/em> when a new software acquisition happens. If the app you’ve come to rely on for your day-to-day work is one you’ve been using for years, you may very well be scared, angry, or sad about the passing of one era into another. That’s because an app \u2014 particularly one that’s as ubiquitous and widely used as Figma \u2014 is more than an app. It’s how you get things done, and that has an impact on everything from your daily routine to how confident you are in your work. It’s personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But it’s also how our industry works. Companies are swallowing other companies all the time. In fact, some companies have an explicit goal to be acquired. Products swap hands so often that they are almost a currency in tech. Figma? That is roughly seven Beats acquisitions<\/a>. There’s been such a flurry of acquisitions in the WordPress space the past few years that someone designed a WordPress game of Monopoly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, those knee-jerk reactions? They’re gonna be the same no matter what \u2014 just swap Figma with another product and you’re sure to hear much of the same. It’s a good reminder of how fast things change and the danger of getting too personally attached to a product, tool, service, app, or whatever when it comes to our work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s move on to some links!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n\n\nMaybe HTML isn’t always the accessible choice<\/h2>\n\n\n