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Adobe Universal Binaries... in 2007
bo peterberg writes "According to a pdf on Adobe's website, they remain committed to supporting Intel-based Macs. However, Intel-based Macs will not be supported until the next upgrade of all creative products. The current version will not be re-released."
There are no real surprises here. This is very similar to how they transitioned Photoshop and Illustrator to Mac OS X several years ago. My main hopes are that CS3 is not living half in two worlds like they did with Illustrator 10 and Photoshop 7.
On the bright side, if Adobe keeps up the status quo on Creative Suite 3 then we will see all of the Apps that ship in Creative Suite, ship together. Acrobat 5 was horrible on Mac OS X, the Acrobat application ran natively in OS X, but the distiller ran in Classic and suffered severe performance penalties as a result. Hopefully all of the apps tranistioning around the same time will leave a better taste in their customers mouths.
I am glad to see them attempting to show off their xCode developemtn prowess by delivering the LightRoom beta earlier than their other software packages.
Except that you can deactivate your previously installed copy and install it on a new Mac.
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Adobe isn't updating until 2007, we can probably assume the same for the Macromedia apps. Native Instruments (Reaktor, Absynth, Kontakt) is going to be rolling out products starting at the end of Q2 2006 to Q1 2007. Cycling '74 (Max/MSP, pluggo, Jitter) is estimating "the end of 2006" but they haven't even come close to meeting a deadline in many years, so that'll probably be mid-2007. Steinberg (Cubase) has said they'll update "sometime" in 2006.
So... exactly who is the market for the new Intel products? The swarms of iPod owners that own Apple products for reasons of fashion more than functionality? It seems like none of the apps that high-end Apple users actually use aren't going to be out for quite some time.
But they sorta had to release the Intel products so soon, though didn't they? All the hardcore Apple guys I knew said they wouldn't be buying any new stuff until the transition to Intel. Oh well...
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Lol, who was crying? I'm looking to possibly cross-grade, that's all. I was going to go for an Intel Mac, but now I just might wait. Wasn't crying about it, just stating a fact. And as I said, perhaps the Intel based makes and OSX will get a better "shake out" by the time I get around to actually cross-grading....if ever.
Calm down sparky.
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Honestly it almost seems Adobe does this to screw with Apple
Oh, I don't think they're malicious, just complacent. They're the Microsoft of image editing, and they'll behave as such until and unless there's a major competitor.
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Even after I knew the Intel Macs were coming, I chose to invest in a Dual-Processor Dual-Core G5. Why throw money at the platform that is guaranteed to be phased out?
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I worked through the transition from 680x0 to PowerPC. I worked through the transition of OS 9 to OS X. These transitions are NEVER easy. I chose to get the most power I could out of the platform that currently works best. I'll wait to get an Intel Mac until they are well into year two of general use, and only after my must-have applications have had at least one set of bug fixes released to their Universal Binary versions.
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So... exactly who is the market for the new Intel products? ...It seems like none of the apps that high-end Apple users actually use aren't going to be out for quite some time.
You mean somebody still believes the hype that Apple users are mostly graphic artists these days? I know a lot of people including a few who are artists that use macs. Most mac users I know, however, are programmers and scientists. Another large number are non-power users who basically use the Web, e-mail, and some word processing. More people I know are concerned about Mathematica or their personal favorite terminal application running nicely than photoshop. I'm sure there are a lot of graphics people who are pissed about the delay, but I doubt they are a significant number to affect the sales results. I've seen this exact same thing happen several times on the Mac platform and developers never learn. A major niche application developer announces they won't be supporting new hardware for a year or more. Two years later they actually get a version out the door and find half their customers have moved on to a more nimble competitor's application and they just aren't all that interested in switching back. Adobe just announced, "hey anyone who can throw together something nice that actually uses all the built in CoreImage technology that already does half what our product does is free to muscle in and steal our customers." Brilliant!
>Not sure if you're trying to be funny or what, but in case you
>didn't already hear, Steve Jobs singled out Quark in his keynote as
>already having a Universal Binary for QuarkXPress.
If your app is 100% cocoa, then producing an Intel binary is as simple as a recompile. If your app is a crappy port from the Windows version with lots of carbon legacy code, then you will have a lot of rewriting to do.
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The earliest I can reasonably be a Mac user is 2007.
You're pretty dense to be a Photoshop user. You just don't get it. Maybe the result of using Windows.
You can buy a PowerPC based Mac TODAY and you can buy Adobe software for a PowerPC based Mac TODAY. Where do you get this idea that you can't be a Mac user TODAY?
Adobe didn't make that decision.
Adobe made the decision not to recompile their existing release for Intel Macs. Apple has had the documentation out for making the universial binaries since last summer. Waiting to compile the future release into universal binaries is Adobe's decision.
Many other software developers had their software updated and ready before Apple even released an Intel Mac.
That's the reality and there are many Mac users you can help you get up and running TODAY. Not 2007.
I don't know that much about the GIMP but I wonder if they would ever be able to take advantage of something like CI. There is portability to maintain...
Well, that really is the heart of the problem. Anyone who insists on doing a cross-platform image editor won't use the full capabilities of any platform.
-jcr
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Not exactly. Not having anybody left and outsourcing the entire thing to India will do that to you. It took them that long to get the engineers in India up to speed in OSX.