Bruce Chizen, Adobe Systems CEO, recently chatted with Forbes.com. “Acrobat is coming in the fourth quarter of 2006. [Design software package] Creative Suite 3 will be introduced in the second quarter of 2007. Acrobat will take advantage of the Macromedia assets. And you’ll see a lot of activity in the CS3 launch. There will be a lot of integration between [Macromedia] products and [Adobe] products as part of those offerings. By the time we launch CS3, the value of the two companies will be clear,” Chizen said.
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another year, thats gotta be a blow to apple, think ill keep hold of my g5 for a while yet.
Cant wait for the new version of Go Live should ROCK!!!
guess apple should have bought adobe when apple’s shares where at 80.
And how many of OS X’s technologies will it support? Core, Quartz? Doubt it. Its written for the lowest common denominator, i.e. Windows. Come on Apple, bring your own out.
Intergate macromedia with adobe products?
Here’s an idea. Kill that piece of crap GoLive and just go with Dreamweaver.
Here’s another idea, take some of the simplicty of Freehand and put it into Illustrator.
It’s going to hurt Adobe too by not getting the product out sooner.
Welll…..guess I got to wait another year to buy a new Mac.
Sorry, Steve.
Abobe sucks. Am I the only person in the world that use FrameMaker?
This is EXACTLY why I bought the last PPC PowerBook, because it was gonna take some time for the whole Intel hardware/software transition to shake itself out.
Rev. C MacBook Pro anyone???
Mr. Reeee: “This is EXACTLY why I bought the last PPC PowerBook, because it was gonna take some time for the whole Intel hardware/software transition to shake itself out.”
Ditto.
GoLive combined with Dreamweaver?
Speed of Dreamweaver and the Adobe integration of GoLive. I’m looking forward to something like that.
As long as the interface isn’t Dreamweaver. Sheese!
Mybe Apple could expand Aperture to make it a Photoshop killer.
Drunk Cheney, sorrie to say but you have to put down the booze! “Speed of Dreamweaver”?? what version are you using? I loathe Go Live and swear by dreamweaver but it is anything but fast, maybe adobe team should work on just making all these apps faster rather than taking minutes to use the damn applications!!
Work Faster!! less “new” features
We still use Macromedia Director MX daily here for our interactive multimedia titles – Flash really is no competitor in either ease of implementation or features. (We do use Flash assets within Director, however.)
We have no hope of ever seeing a universal build of Director – let alone a feature upgrade, which is quite sad.
I’m with Drunk Cheney, I want to see Dreamweaver with a more GoLive like interface.
Strike that – come up with a new interface that is better than either of them. GoLive is less painful than DW but it still hurts.
I also agree with having Illustrator adopt some of Freehand’s features, or at least, better implementation of overlapping features.
I’ll say this much. I hate Illustrator. If they kill Freehand, which it looks like they will, I’m looking elsewhere. Illustator is a bloated piece of shite. It has a few nice features but runs like crap. They don’t even have multi-page support. How retarded. Looks like Xara is now open sourcing thier software for ~nix based systems. Looks very promising.
My brand spaking new Quad G5 should keep me happy in CS 2 for the next year and beyond. 😀
Uh . . . you MBP hold outs don’t know what your missing. I run Photoshop CS2 on my MBP and other than launching the app, I gaurantee it’s faster than most G4’s 1.5 and under. It’s the launch that’s the killer, after that it’s pretty fast. I to was worried when I brought the MBP about Adobe. No longer, it’s fast!
Eiiiiii. Wrong Answer, Chizen baby.
Perfect opportunity for Apple to tear off layer number 2 of Adobe customers with simple tweaks to Aperture.
Adobe sat with their finger up their ass with PS bloatware and Jobs came in and ripped photographer customers away ruthlessly. Now, scene 2 is here, and he will take the next group who have held off from Aperture becasue of lack of PS features and will add those in.
Chizen will be further bloating PS.
Then, Apple will come with thier own simple version of a PS-like app laser pointed at a small audience fed up with huge PS overserving bloatware that is too expensive and take them, too.
Adobe is too slow, too bloated. A dinosaur in the making.
“This is EXACTLY why I bought the last PPC PowerBook, because it was gonna take some time for the whole Intel hardware/software transition to shake itself out.”
I have a G4 Powerbook also, but sadly, the performance with Adobe and/or Macromedia products is rather pathetic compared to an average PC notebook, not to mention a modern PC desktop running the same applications. Sometimes I feel it is almost unusable.
what about all designers who need Freehand for non-slow motion modeling? Any word of anyone out there buying the FH sourcecode?
Crud — probably means 2Q 2008 for Universal Photoshop Elements…well, waiting for the ticking watch gives me more time to get a cup of coffee…
Apple needs to put the fear of God (or Sir Steve) into Adobe — come out with Universal Aperture, and start dropping hints about a consumer-directed producted based on Aperture (Aperture Lite? Aperture Automatic?).
I was really looking forward to checking out the Adobe pavilion next January at MacWorld, figuring that’s when they’d come out with CS3 Universal…well, I can probably cross that off my list…