>You don't have to buy it. That's the reality. [...] You guys are simply factually wrong.
It's the argument and the conclusion that I don't buy, not your (and Adobe's) carefully selected set of facts.
Here's a very big player in the graphics software market that tried to buy a potential strategic threat out of the market. This is the fact that matters in my view.
I wouldn't let the top 5 in any market buy another company that is or could soon become a significant competitor in that or a closely related market.
Again that's not how antitrust regulation works. I am not sure why you keep repeating the same mistake.
Figma have 3 million users. In what world would a purchase of them be dominating Canva with 135 million monthly users and with 16 million paying subscribers.
You are confusing Adobe being a big company with why they are a big company.
Apparently anti-trust regulators disagree. They put up enough of a fight to at least give Adobe an excuse for letting the deal fall through.
>You are confusing Adobe being a big company with why they are a big company.
I have heard your argument and I understand what you are saying. Unfortunately, you're not responding to my counter arguments, which makes this not a very interesting debate.
No they don't and both the US and EU had approved it. The UK is using a novel theory that have no basis in reality where they are claiming to be able to predict the future.
You don't have a counter argument, you just have your own opinion on how it should be done. Antitrust is not being done that way you seem to think it's not the reason why the UK didn't allow it.
Adobe doesn't have network effect or anything like that.
Just to give you the numbers:
Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes Photoshop, has over 22 million subscribers.
Thats 1/5 of Canva users.
You guys are simply factually wrong.