Adobe Drops Mac Support For Premiere

Theaetetus writes "In a story on MacCentral, it's revealed that Adobe Systems is dropping support for the Mac in the new version of video editing app Premiere: 'If Apple's already doing an application, it makes the market for a third-party developer that much smaller,' said David Trescot, senior director of Adobe's digital video products group. In response to the news, Apple issued a statement welcoming Premiere customers to make the switch to the Mac and Final Cut Pro."

Comments

Re:Apple is the new Microsoft (only smaller)

[presearch]

Hidden, unpublished APIs?

Have you even looked at the latest FireWire SDK?
Or QuickTime?
Or WebKit?
Or CoreAudio?
Or iMovie Plugin?
Or Image Capture?
Or Information Access Toolkit?
Or the rest of the Cocoa and Carbon APIs?

After you've written something that has exhausted the possibilities in those APIs,
then you might have a reason to gripe, but until then, you're just spreading FUD.

Re:Adobe afraid of competition?

[eclectic4]

You don't understand. The majority (I have read anywhere from 58% to 70%, movie industry editing news) of the computers that use professional video editing software are Macs. So, the Windows market is actually SMALLER than the Mac market for these softwares.

Now, throw in the fact that FCP became the de facto choice by pros a couple of years ago (overtaking AVID, which was more expensive, and cumbersome), and you have the reason Adobe is doing this. Apple simply beat them, and Adobe is bowing out. Nothing more.

Re:Didn't Adobe sell apple Final Cut?

[Alan Partridge]

You ARE wrong. FCP came from Macromedia, who had pinched Premiere's lead programmers to produce a Premiere killer (that's why FCP is so Premiere like - it IS "Super Premiere"). Macromedia had let the project founder, Apple bought it back to life.

Now, Adobe has finally admitted defeat. The Premiere killer has killed.