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March 24, 2006
MacTel info
MacTel info: Scott Byer of the Photoshop team describes the engineering workflow of migrating Photoshop to the new Apple computers atop an Intel architecture. Because this hardware migration also requires a change in development environments, there's no way to patch code. It's the next version of the imaging application which is being built with Apple's new Xcode development environment. Other apps are in a similar situation, and need a new development cycle to migrate. Some new efforts, like Lightroom and Flash Player, are already in preview on Labs. Photoshop, as part of Adobe Creative Suite 3.0, is expected for delivery "in the second quarter of 2007", according to Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen in Forbes. Last month John Nack had more info on Photoshop and general Adobe tools, and Tinic Uro talked about the Flash Player porting process. There's hunger for this info... Scott's essay hit Memeorandum today, being recommended by several of that site's "editors". (Me, the first big computer I bought was an Apple Quadra 800 the day it shipped, and I remember how dismayed I was at having to wait for the new Swivel 3D I purchased to be patched. In the MacTel case we've got emulation in the meantime, but it's still hard to wait for the development process to be ported over before the code can be.)
Posted by John Dowdell at March 24, 2006 07:59 AM
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I wish that Adobe didn't taint Macromedia. Macromedia wouldn't have reacted in the same manner as Adobe. The hubris of Bruce Chizen is appalling.
Adobe has had three years to transition to Xcode. This is just a lame ploy to get customers to upgrade to CS3 since there weren't any compelling reasons to upgrade to CS2.
This would be an excellent time for Apple to release a Photoshop competitor that takes advantage of core technologies that Adobe would never leverage because of its applications being cross-platform.
Posted by: Jeremiah at March 24, 2006 11:12 AM