Nack writes, “By the time the next version of the Suite ships, the very youngest PPC-based Macs will be roughly four years old. They’re still great systems, but if you haven’t upgraded your workstation in four years, you’re probably not in a rush to upgrade your software, either. Bottom line: Time & resources are finite, and with big transitions underway (going 64-bit-native, switching from Carbon to Cocoa), you want Adobe building for the future, not for the past.”
More info via Adobe’s FAQ here.
No PhotoShop for my G5?!?!
They screwed it up after CS2 anyway.
Makes sense. If Adobe is finally going to update their code, why update to an obsolete platform. The Creative Suite is pro-level software and pros’ primary machines are usually less than four years old.
What’s going to happen with Photoshop Elements?
When it’s released in 2015.
No shock there. I haven’t even bothered to move up to CS4 anyway
If it gets them to finally get their act together with the code, I’m all for it. I still have a G5 for personal use, but I haven’t had a PPC Mac at work probably 3 years. I also rarely use CS3 on the G5.
Adobe? Who are they? Too many other products out there! They lost their business in a lot of markets a long time ago due to their extravagant cost and software bloat. CS2 was the last time I used them and already the software would not work very well and took up too many resources on the computer!
I’m gonna need a new Mac for Logic anyway… and Snow Leopard.
They announced this around the same time Snow Leopard was. At LEAST a year ago, I think.
This is a great move for Adobe. If they can really move from Carbon to Cocoa, go 64-bit, and slim down the size of the apps by making them Intel-only in time for CS5 then they are on the right track. That doesn’t help the astronomical pricing, though.
Yes, can we PLEASE have less code bloat?
I agree it’s the right move for Adobe (my only PowerPC computer is now just a very good dedicated music server for the house that works great with Remote and my touch).
But can anyone tell me whether or not the supposed 64-bit prowess of the G5 ever really got utilized by any software.
I remember how excited I was that the G5 was 64-bit and that Tiger was going to take advantage of it. But, at least in my daily computing, I don’t think those promises ever came to fruition.
Anyone?
CS3 works just fine.
Adobe had such good success with CS4 that they’ve discounted it $100.00!
LOL…Maybe I’ll upgrade to CS5 in 2015.
They didn’t mention how the Microsoft version will probably be released 1-2 years before the Mac version. (ie, see Adobe Elements)…
Here’s what I wrote to John Nack of Adobe in response to his blog:
“Thanks for the heads-up! Given that you threw us under the bus when you dropped Freehand without a civilized means to correctly transfer many years and thousands of files we created over Illustrator (without major hiccups), it’s positive that Adobe simply does not care. I feel about as welcome as anyone who dares speak out in disagreement with Nancy Pelosi.
“If Adobe had given Freehand users transparent way to move the body of a decade of work to Illustrator, and thus be able to use Intel-based Macs, your blog today would be a non-issue. But you are hurting both Apple and yourselves, because we will have to stay on PowerPC-based Macs for some years to come.
“I previously wrote and begged Adobe to take some of the best ideas from Freehand, and consider having your programmers re-create these features into Illustrator. Obviously, that idea went nowhere. Instead, you do what all victors do when the capture a country: trash it. Some brilliant ideas, such as the contextual menus of GoLive, have been tossed aside as well. In your corporate hubris, you have left so much brilliant intellectual property in the garbage. Both we, the customers, and Adobe are the worse for it.
“Oh, a tip: when you get a moment, take a look at the upgrade chart on your Web site for customers wanting to go to the latest version of Creative Suite. It made me think of this: http://bit.ly/4FrupS . There’s a lesson in it for Adobe. That is, if you are willing to listen and learn.”
Cool. All the agencies have handed their G5s down to the suits anyway.
So what. I dropped support for Adobe CS after CS 1! The upgrades since CS 1 have been overpriced, require activation, and don’t add anything useful, just bloat!
@Dave
I pretty much agree w/ everything you said except, “…I feel about as welcome as anyone who dares speak out in disagreement with Nancy Pelosi.”
I live in the SF Bay Area and I don’t know anyone who supports that spineless waste of space. I certainly don’t.
As for Freehand – great application. Adobe really did themselves a disservice by just casting it aside. Some of the features, like multipage, multi-size documents were very cool.
Freehand was a great application!
@BotonCandy
Why does she keep getting reelected?
Does this mean that Adobe will finally abandon their incredibly ugly (not to mention infinitely quirky) interface in favor of a more Mac-like workspace? Don’t get me wrong: I love Photoshop; but the interface is terrible, and always has been.
“I remember how excited I was that the G5 was 64-bit and that Tiger was going to take advantage of it. But, at least in my daily computing, I don’t think those promises ever came to fruition. … Anyone?”
@MidwestMac: Same here. At first I bragged to my Windows friends, until useful 64 bit came to Windows first. Mathematica waited for Windows and then went 64-bit kernels for all platforms at once. Interactive apps had to wait for Snow Leopard for a 64-bit OS. Apple squandered whatever 64-bit lead them might have had.
The upgrades since CS 1 have been overpriced, require activation, and don’t add anything useful, just bloat! —jon
Personally, I find CS4’s tabbed document window a great productivity enhancer. Ditto for the improved layers palette. I would add, however, that 90% of what is great about Photoshop was already present in Photoshop 3, which came out 15 years ago. It’s amazing that nothing has really been able to challenge Photoshop’s supremacy in all these years; but it’s bound to happen sooner or later if Adobe just keeps inching forward year after year.
I hate paying for all the adobe upgrades when there are still many things to be fixed, but unless there is some other (pro) alternative to Photoshop / Dreamweaver / Illustrator / Flash, then adobe it is. CS4 is actually a good upgrade – minus some Dreamweaver mac issues that haven’t been addressed.
Hmmm, “Adobe”.
That’s hardened mud, right?
When Photoshop gets a halfway decent Curves tool, I might upgrade. Hint to Adobe: check out Betterlight’s Viewfinder tone curve. Makes PS look retarded.
@Dave
My Congressman, Eric Massa, of NY-29, is a freshman Democrat and has voted against Her Highness Peolosi. After all, we elected him, she didn’t, and he knows who he has to please November 2010.
(Hint – not anyone from Cali-la-la.)