“The wait is nearly over! We can now confirm that Adobe Creative Suite 3 will be announced March 27, 2007. The company is celebrating the launch at an event in New York City that will be webcast live at 3:30pm ET. During the webcast, Adobe will reveal the features and suite configurations that make this the largest software release in Adobe’s 25 year history,” Cara Cassidy blogs for Adobe.
Creative Solutions PR @ Adobe EDITOR’S NOTE: We are announcing Creative Suite 3 on March 27th. However, the software will not ship until later in Spring 2007.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Adobe is so horribly and pitifully late on this already, a month or two more is meaningless. And, BTW, nobody gives a zune about your announcement, Adobe – we all know it’s coming, just ship the damn thing already! Sheesh, you just announced it via your blog post above. Idiots.
What’s next?
I’d like to announce that I will be making an announcement to announce the announcement of an announcement that will announce the announcement of an announcement after I announce the announcement I just announced. I love announcing announcements. Please consider this an unofficially announced pre-announcement. – Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen
Apple told developers and the world about the Mac’s Intel transition on June 6, 2005. Since then, 5,648 Universal Applications (and counting) have been released. Adobe: a once-great company becoming more and more Microsoftian with each passing day.
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Figures.
Bullshit MDN…
CS3 is NOT “horribly and pitifully late” at all… CS2 has only been out for less than 2 years, and they bought Crapromedia just over a year ago, and are integrating Crapromedia crap into CS3, so it’s not a small order…
You are such fscking whiners, MDN.
No, this is typical for Adobe. Adobe bought out Framemaker and then killed it with a long, slow, torturous death. They did the same thing to CoolEdit. Now they’re doing it to Macromedia’s apps — heck, just ask Robohelp! They are becoming more and more Microsoftian day by day.
i am wrong. sorry.
Please don’t anyone suggest Apple buys Adobe. Its like suggesting the navy should go back to building WWII-era battleships.
pffftttt, you have a little Abobe semen on your chin there.
Apple is responsible for the delay, Adobe is waiting for Leopard to release CS3.
BTW, Adobe is no friend of MS. There are up to a fight against Microsoft with XPS, their PDF-killer (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/default.mspx).
So, this story is an announcement of an upcoming announcement of an upcoming product. Is anyone else amused by this?
I am with pffftttt,
Adobe has said for several versions now that they are on an 18-24 month cycle with the entire Creative Suite. They are solidly in the middle with this Spring 2007 release. Cut a little slack – there is a lot going on: one major platform switches processor family and the other finally produces a new OS (Vista) plus they make a major purchase (Macromedia). As far as I am concerned, its amazing that they did not announce a delay with CS3.
MDN magic word: Arms. Don’t be so “up in arms” – chill.
“Since then, 5,648 Universal Applications (and counting) have been released.”
To be fair to Adobe, it’s very misleading to compare the massive legacy code base of Adobe’s Creative Suite to a large number of small apps. Not to mention that many of these small apps don’t have the 10+ year history of code to delve through.
I also agree with pffftttt: the time between CS 2 & CS 3 is the normal time they allot themselves between releases – not to mention that they have to integrate the technology they bought from Macromedia. Also, how many apps NOT from Apple (and excluding Quark) have been released that have the scale of Adobe’s apps?
Office still hasn’t been shipped either – for the same reasons as Adobe: large legacy code base and pre-planned timing between releases.
Some of you guys are ridiculous (and MDN is ALWAYS ridiculous and out of line). Would you rather they spit out a rushed or flawed piece of software like Microsuck just to meet the deadline customers try to pressure them to? Get a grip people. They’re on the same development schedule as they’ve always been.
Trust me. Adobe is run by idiots.
I hope the improvements to PhotoShop are more that just bridge, I already have Aperture for that.
BTW – I couldn’t agree more with MDN’s take on Adobe’s “announcement”
You are way off on this one MDN. Apple made the Intel announcemnet early to pressure deveopers to get things rolling. This did not sit well with many big developers. Adobe does a great job, but they have a huge code base to deal with. Remember how long Quark took to get native with OS X?
The only thing I want to know is when we well have options other than Adobe anything and everything. Adobe wants to drop the Mac and wants to put all of it’s eggs into the Windows basket, and I’d sure like to be able to tell them to go right ahead. As a video editor using FCP I really do not like working in the PS paradigm when touching up and preping stills at all. In a way its exactly what it says it is – to a fault – its a pro photographer’s tool, but not a pro video-post tool. I’ve found some open-source ware that does a decent job, but I just don’t like having to run stuff in X11, the interface is clumsy.
Anyway, bah humbug on Adobe…
Geeze MDN take a chill pill. I love Adobe currently using CS1 on a new MacBook Pro. Lovin it. But yeah boring, a few more brushs and fancy filters, big deal.
Adobe is an aging dinosaur. Compare it to Luxology, which creates the extremely advanced Modo 3D Software fo the Mac and PC. They have a press release on their web site that states it took them 19 minutes to compile a Universal Binary after Apple made the Intel announcement. That’s because they have exceptional, long-term thinking programmers who wrote well structured code from the outset. Coud not say the same for Adobe.
I prefer to look forward. CS3 being released is a good thing for Apple and will hopefully translate into more desktops sold as a result. I am not a graphics professional but I like to use it to modify scientific drawings. I for one believe ChrissyOne who says it will be a great release. Looks like everyone will benefit here.
I agree that the MDN take is way off.
Adobe is on point with their release cycle. Add to the fact that on top of adding new features to a large portion of their own apps, they went though an entire rebrand of their products, had to make them Universal Binary AND Vista compatible and refresh all of Adobe’s and Macromedia’s applications to create a cohesive workflow. Regardless of what the peanut gallery thinks with repect to how Adobe is run, they have not dropped the ball on this one. Not even close. The only reason Adobe made this announcement is to stop the rampant speculation that many analysts love to do and to set expectations. I’m sure their stockholders would agree.
Adobe bashing? As a professional photographer I need Photoshop. Period. There are lots of other programs to do lots of other things – and I use many of them. BUT, in the end, all of my images wind up in Photoshop for final editing before going to the big didigital printers. I would like an announcement of the date for the announcement of separate PS CS3 – not the total creative suite package. I would also like an anouncement of the date for announcing Photoshop Elements 5.0 for the Mac. I teach digital photography classes and it is a royal pain to have 5.0 for PCs and 4.0 for Macs.
Dick
Trust me. Adobe’s Photoshop code was an old tangled mess. A perfect mirror of the company itself.
As was noted above, CS is not one app- it’s a whole suite of apps. Second, comparing a shareware game (now Universal!) to a Pro application is comparing Apples and oranges. Third, Apple’s lame but getting better X-Code has proven to be a mutha for large app developers to use- Adobe is not the only one reporting the problem. Fourth, the integration of Macromedia stuff added considerably to the load. Fifth, Apple’s eternal dinking around with API’s and such makes a developer’s job much more difficult.
WOHA!! Back off MDN!
First of all the entire software industry is adapting their codebase to work with multi-threaded cores. This is a very difficult task for programmers.
Processors can’t be made to go any faster without severe heat, so now multi-cores is the way to go to and programmers had to revise everything they knew.
Adobe for many years just added new features to their present codebase, waiting for this eventuality.
Second, Apple switched to Intel processors rather suddenly because IBM couldn’t make a cool G5 processor.
Third Apple mandated the change to X-Code, when a lot of third party code was done in other programs.
What is going to be nice when CS3 is realized is the fast speed of rendering using multi-core computers. Including a 8 core Mac Pro.
I for one welcome the change.
I’m as impatient as anyone else to get the new version of semi-non-legacy code Photoshop when it comes out. And I’m just as suspicious with Adobe linking their products together as I am with Microsoft or Apple (like losing features in iWeb because I don’t have an .Mac account). But something tells me that it doesn’t matter really. The beta of Photoshop CS3 is miles ahead of previous versions, and I’m prepared to wait until it’s done (as long as my beta doesn’t run out first).
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Adobe sucks. They’re fortunate that Apple hasn’t already released a Photoshop killer of their own or else nobody would even care about CS3.