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Figma kept shipping through fifteen months of acquisition shadow
The products the work is made in.
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Figma kept shipping through fifteen months of acquisition shadow
Adobe announced the acquisition in September 2022 and abandoned it in December 2023, and everyone kept working in Figma anyway. What changed was not the tool but where designers and engineers disagree.
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