03/24/2006, 1:20pm, EST
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 due in Q2 2007
Chizen also said that there would be a lot of integration between Macromedia's and Adobe's products and that the value of the two companies will be clear following the launch of CS3. Earlier this year, the company said that it would not deliver Universal Binary versions of its applications until the major release of each application, although it did release an Intel native version of Lightroom, a beta version of its professional application for photographers that competes with Apple's recently released Aperture.
Xcode not enough for Photoshop
An Adobe engineer recently blogged about the prospect of updating Photoshop CS2 to offer native support on Intel Macs, but said that Apple's Xcode development software is not yet able to handle large applications sufficiently.
"Now, Apple is doing an amazing job at catching up rapidly, but the truth is we don't yet have a shipping XCode in hand that handles a large application well."
The engineer added that because Adobe is so far along on its CS3 release, it wouldn't make sense to spend time porting over the old code which would require both development software that can handle a large application -- which Apple has yet to provide -- and a major reworking of the code that handles the "heavy lifting," which previously relied on plugins to optimize performance for PowerPC-based Macs.
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It would take a bit of work, but Adobe should remember that it's well within Apple's capability to turn Aperture into a full-blown compositing program just using the tech it already owns with Shake and FCP.
Like Avid, Adobe grew up with Apple and has its most loyal fans married to the Apple platform. But if a divorce happens, most of us will stay with daddy Apple.
Remember, a computer is nothing more than a shiny box without software.
If Apple came out with a good graphic suite at a good price in let's say 6 months that leveraged Apple's tech the way FCP does, enough people would try it to put the fear of God into Chizon. Their choice would be to start taking care of your base or throw a hissy and go Windows only.
My money would be on Apple surviving that.
Does not make sense...
[Interesting that the one Adobe product with an Apple (universal binary) alternative (Lightroom vs Aperture), is one product from Adobe that is Intel native. I get the picture...]
I agree with kw99. It's amazing how fast they were able to write Lightroom once Apple released Aperture..
I, too, would like to see Apple throw out some competition to Photoshop and even the whole Creative Suite. Adobe bought the last remaining competitor, Macromedia (as Corel doesn't count), so what do they care as to when they release what.
I'm doing just fine on CS1 on my 1.25GHz G4 MDD. There are so few benefits of moving to CS2 that I'll wait until Apple has released a 2nd revision of their upcoming Intel tower, wait until Adobe has fully integrated Macromedia's software into their own and released it as universal binary.
Apple should buy the old Mac versions of Corel Photo Paint and Corel Draw to poke Adobe in the eye...