“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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Adobe software engineer explains why Photoshop for Intel-based Macs is taking so long – March 24, 2006
Should Apple buy Adobe as leverage against Microsoft? – December 16, 2005
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.
Adobe always takes the time to get it right. And they do.
Adobe stated very clearly early on that they are committed to making CS3 Universal, but that it made no sense to take man power away to work on a Universal CS2. To me, that makes perfect sense.
The “industry” isn’t “whispering” anything of the sort. Adobe, themselves, said they are going to release CS3 in their normal, 18-24 upgrade cycle, which puts it anywhere from October of this year to April of 2007. That’s what they’ve said all along. A little research will tell you that.
As for why they aren’t simply releasing a UB update to CS2, read Scott Byer’s article about why it is so complicated:
http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/
Things could have gone more smoothly if they had handled the OS X transition a little differently back in 2001, but there’s no use crying over spilled milk. Besides, as the recent processor shoot-outs have shown us, Rosetta works pretty well on the Mac Pro – hardly noticeable.
TIME TO PASS ADOBE UP! LET THIS FIDDLE FUCK AROUND, BUT I AM FINISHED WITH THEM
Adobe loves to do this. They are flexing their superiority complex.
Apple needs to accelerate the development of their own software so that Adobe doesn’t matter any more.
iWork and iLife need unlimited budgets, the best and brightest people paid whatever it takes, and then we won’t have to tolerate Adobe’s arrogance – although sometimes it’s hard to tell whose arrogance is the most offensive, Apple’s or someone else’s.
It would have been sweet at the last Keynote for Jobs to say, “And one more thing…. Abobe will ship a Universal version of the Creative Suite in September this year. Here is CEO….”
The other thing Adobe is contending with right now is integrating their products with the Macromedia acquisitions. You might think this wouldn’t affect Photoshop, for example. But In Design – which is tightly integrated with Photoshop – is being integrated with Fireworks – which is tightly integrated with Dreamweaver. Likewise Illustrator and Flash – CVS goes bye-bye; FlashPaper has some kind of marriage with Acrobat; … it’s not as simple as re-writing existing code for what was one platform’s OS (OS X) with another platform’s hardware architecture (WinTel.)
I would much rather they do this right then rush it. Especially considering there is far less competition now driving excellency.
Of course, I’m still using a Quad G5, won’t upgrade to Mac Pro until after I have my sweet Adobe suite!
Adobe apps work tolerable fast so it’s probabaly best to wait for a properly sorted cs3 rather than a hasty exercise.
Still, come on Apple with iLife Pro apps — iPhoto-Aperture would make a powerful combo, and PagesPro could shape up as a decent Quarkiller.
I sumbit that Adobe blaming Appple is a load of hooey. My guess is that rather than working on getting a universal Mac app out the door, they are working on bring the code base for Mac and Windows versions of their apps in line. I would, it makes sense.
And what about Microsloth. I’ve got clients poised to switch over to intel Macs, but I my experience is that Microsloth apps run worse than ever.
Adobe isn’t the only one.
I think what people should really be angry with Adobe about is the way they are handing the upgrade paths for everyone who owned full suites of Macromedia Studio. They have essentially manipulated this thing so if you own it, you really aren’t getting any break at all on the price.
And that’s what happens when you have no competition in the marketplace.
C’mon Apple! You know you want to release your own software to take on Adobe. Now you’ve got your perfect excuse.
How long must we wait for Adobe to produce Universal applications for Apple’s Intel-powered Macs?
Probably as long as Adobe announced…. which is Spring 2007.
Two Words: Next Year
The problem isn’t converting existing Adobe programs, they are using this as a way to force you to pay upgrade fees for their new versions, and the new version isn’t coming out till next year.
First off
CS2 on a Mac Pro vs a PPC Quad is a wash under Rosetta.
So since a Dual Quad is coming and Adobe is going to update CS3 to take advantage of multiple cores, makes no sense to put out a half assed version.
I was pissed at Adobe for dragging their collective asses, but I realized why bother? it’s a total code rewrite.