“It claims there are more than 3000 Universal applications for the Mac, including Apple’s own Mac OS X, iLife 06 suite, iTunes, Safari web browser and Final Cut Pro, and more are being added every day,” David Frith writes for Australian IT.
Frith writes, “Alas, the popular Photoshop isn’t one of them. Nor are any of the other programs in Adobe’s Creative Suite.”
“The software company says it is ‘excited’ by Apple’s move to the Intel platform, and is committed to producing all-new Universal versions of many of its applications, including InDesign, PhotoShop, Dreamweaver and Illustrator – but it definitely won’t upgrade current versions,” Frith writes. “None of the upgraded versions appears remotely close to reaching the market. The industry whisper is a commercial release could be the second quarter of 2007. Or maybe later.”
Full article here.
More info about Universal Applications: http://www.apple.com/universal/applications/
MacDailyNews Take: The problem is that Adobe’s apps are “mature” (read “old”) and need quite a bit of rewriting. Still, we have to question the extent of Adobe’s commitment to the platform that made their company.
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The thought that came to mind right away.
Fscking Adobe…
the software adobe has developed in recent years is a reflection of the company itself. ie bloated, slow and lacking in any real innovation.
I read yesterday that Adobe’s apps are not developed in XCode and still can’t be because the environment doesn’t handle something that large. If this is true I don’t blame them at all for taking so long.
Dave
An Adobe employee’s explanation is here.
I don’t think we have to question Adobe’s commitment. This is a tremendous opprotunity to sell everyone that owns Photoshop a new copy. These sales won’t come from just PPC upgraders, but from Wintel switchers as well.
IF Adobe were to release Photoshop in January, that would be a major fete. Photoshop is a large and complex application. A total rewrite (bug free) in just 18 months is a monumental accomplishment.
I think people are being overly critical of Adobe.
Djernurm,
Xcode is 64-bit which allows access to 2^64 bytes or 4GB SQUARED! You can’t get larger than that.
A bit of spin from Apple here. The big 3 – Microsoft, Adobe, and Intuit aren’t ready. That is kinda of lame. I’m glad I decided not to buy an Intel machine until next year.
I’d be happy if they just get the darned Adobe Reader out the door in universal binary.
I agree with those that council patience. It is Adobe’s interest to have these apps Universal and I don’t doubt that they are moving on it in a methodical way. Remember that Apple and Intel have pushed the transition to Intel hardware much faster than anyone predicted, if you can believe the articles on that transition. So, maybe Adobe didn’t believe that Apple and Intel would have the Pro Macs ready before early 2007.
Anyway, the new MacPros are so powerful that you can run Photoshop under Rosetta without a hit. Even on my MacBook Pro I can work with Photoshop without much distress.
I know I’m buying Photoshop Elements the day it becomes Universal.