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by PittleyDunkin 599 days ago
> The talent and ideas that were Pixelmator will be substantially diffused as it's absorbed by Apple...

The "ideas" in pixelmator are mostly updating traditional image-mutation patterns to match the native environment language. Let's not pretend that this was some kind of revolutionary application for image development.

Is it implemented well? Absolutely. But this is hardly an example of developing new software practices or processes.