Tue. 06/14 – You Get A Photoshop! You Get A Photoshop! You Get A….

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Adobe and Photoshop are leaning into freemium. Massive and controversial layoffs at Coinbase. Firefox is blocking stuff by default now. Meta announces more tools to make the Metaverse safe from trolls and worse. And why those pro features in iPadOS are only for iPads with M1 chips and above. Sponsors: KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone (The Verge) Coinbase is laying off 1,100 employees as Bitcoin prices continue to fall (The Verge) Firefox enables its anti-tracking feature by default (Engadget) Meta adds voice controls for Horizon Worlds, which defaults to live chat with strangers (TechCrunch) Apple Lets You Move WhatsApp Chats From Android to iPhone (CNET) Apple resized the iPad's workflow with Stage Manager (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Tuesday, June 14th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Adobe and Photoshop are leaning into freemium, massive and controversial layoffs at
0:13.8	coin base. Firefox is blocking stuff by default now. Meta announces more tools
0:18.8	to make the Meta safe from trolls and worse and and why those Pro features in iPad
0:24.6	are only for iPads with M1 chips and above.
0:27.8	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:37.9	Might Adobe be about to go all in on freemium? The company has apparently begun testing a free-to-use version of Photoshop for the web in Canada. Some features will eventually be subscriber only, but maybe we can all get a free version of Photoshop soon like so many Oprah car giveaways, quoting the verge. The company is now testing the free version in Canada. giveaways. Adobe describes this service as freemium and eventually plans to gate off some features
1:04.6	that will be exclusive to paying subscribers.
1:07.3	Enough tools will be freely available to perform what Adobe considers to be Photoshop's core functions.
1:12.5	We want to make Photoshop more accessible and easier for more people to try it out and experience
1:16.4	the product, says Maria Yap, Adobe's VP of digital imaging.
1:20.9	Adobe first released its web version of Photoshop in October, delivering a simplified
1:24.8	version of the app that could be used to handle basic edits.
1:28.5	Layers and core editing tools made the jump, but the service didn't come anywhere close to including the app's full breadth of features.
1:35.0	Instead, Adobe framed it primarily as a collaboration tool, a way for artists to share an image with others and have them jump in, leave some annotations and make a couple
1:44.6	small tweaks and hand it back over.
1:47.3	In the months since, Adobe has made a handful of updates to the service and it's also started to open it up beyond collaboration
1:54.6	use cases. Before someone had to share a document to the web from the desktop
1:58.6	app but now any Photoshop subscriber can log in and start a new document straight from the web.
2:04.0	Adobe's goal is to use the web version of Photoshop to make the app more accessible and potentially
2:08.3	hook users who will want to pay for the full version down the road.
2:12.1	The company has taken a similar route with a number of its
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