> Sure Adobe has the market cornered but it doesn't seem like this is where the agencies would suddenly choose to care so much. And if it was regulatory, then shouldn't those agencies come out and say "We blocked this, no go."
Both the EU and UK had already provisionally found that the deal was a problem, and the DoJ was expected to file suit. The companies had a meeting with the DoJ last Thursday [0]. They previously met with the EU on the 8th, and had a deadline to submit a settlement offer to them (not sure what that means) on the 21st.
Maybe all of those meetings were actually going better than they're trying to make it sound, but the regulators certainly appear to have been paying very close attention to this one, and the timing of the deal cancellation is about right for it to be due to regulatory pressure.
Both the EU and UK had already provisionally found that the deal was a problem, and the DoJ was expected to file suit. The companies had a meeting with the DoJ last Thursday [0]. They previously met with the EU on the 8th, and had a deadline to submit a settlement offer to them (not sure what that means) on the 21st.
Maybe all of those meetings were actually going better than they're trying to make it sound, but the regulators certainly appear to have been paying very close attention to this one, and the timing of the deal cancellation is about right for it to be due to regulatory pressure.
[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/15/adobe-figma-meet-wi...