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Photoshop for OS X
MolGOLD writes: "Well, finally OS X users are getting their wish: Adobe has finally made good on their promise to bring native OS X support to their graphical applications. C|Net is running a story on the upcoming version of Photoshop, which will feature native OS X support. Now that Photoshop 7 will run natively under OS X, will we see companies like Macromedia (who also promised native OS X support) hurry along to follow suit?"
Proprietary software gets released for the Apple Macintosh. When there are amazing Free Software projects around the world that are dying for a little publicity, why is news of a proprietary piece of software released by Adobe, a company that has shown contempt for peoples' rights, for Apple Macintoshes, another proprietary system that isn't even targeted at geeks, supposed to interest me?
One more proprietary app down. How many more to go?
I hardly think this is the point.
Sure, PS7 will be available for OSX - availability isn't the problem, suckage is.
Is it gonna suck? THAT's the point. This will be the definitive test for Aqua; I for one don't see Aqua standing up to it.
One things for damn sure, if Apple doesn't fix the mousing in OSX, nobody's going to even ATTEMPT to do grapics work at any resolution greater than 1024*768.
Disclaimer: This isn't a troll or anything like that, it's just how I feel. ---- When is Apple going to give me a reason to switch? I'm being 100% honest when I say that I truly cannot understand what's so great about Macs. My job almost exclusively involves content creation, mostly in the form of graphics-for-the-web design and a bit of back-end programming. I use a windows machine for graphic work and a linux box for programming. The people I work with think I'm insane, yet my work comes out as good (if not better) as theres. I've yet to experience one reason that I should switch to a Mac, yet I'm constantly told that Macs are best for contention creation. What's the point? Despite having bunches of computers at my house (and I'm proud to say not one is a Mac) there are only two I use regularly: One is a Linux "server" that I use to test things and my "desktop" boots between Win2k, WinXP, and Linux. I've never once seen an application on a Mac that I wanted that wasn't either ported from the PC (and therefor is available to me) or that was ported to the PC (and is also available to me). So what'st he point? To make things worse I can't stand the thought of not being able to build my own computer. I'm spoiled - I like being able to choose my own processor and motherboard and then the case I want to put it in. And while this post is probably going to get modded down for being off-topic, it's simply a response to the above post. Again - what's the point?
P.s. - why is this story even slashdot worthy?
If you need to interpret my post, then you don't get it.
Who the hell modded this flamebait "interesting"?
The Mac *rules* the design world. Every Mac client I have is chomping at the bit for OS X native versions of all their heavy-hitter apps, so they can switch. Limited appeal, my ass! A very sizable chunk of Adobe's revenue comes from their Mac applications-- probably around 35-45%. From a platform that has 5% market share. That's nothing to sneeze at.
~Philly
Its a wonder Adobe make any software at all when they are only servicing a computer that has less than 2% of the total PC market
I disagree, it should be easy once the GUI-kit of GNUstep is complete which should be later on this year.
Great. Hope I can run it on HURD, which has been complete since the Reagan administration, right?
--saint
... what Macintosh pussies think? Homos who yammer on about whether iPhoto is a great event in the history of computers.
Windows XP runs for days without rebooting. Linux has always run for months without rebooting? What could possibly be the fucking relevance of Macintosh any more?