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I think it's worth keeping in mind that even Microsoft as of Office 2011 has excised all the PowerPC cruft from Office. Adobe has no excuse other than laziness.

I think it's worth keeping in mind that even Microsoft as of Office 2011 has excised all the PowerPC cruft from Office. Adobe has no excuse other than laziness. The fact that people defend them and attack Apple over this floors me. How long would it have taken to get all the PowerPC code out of CS if Apple didn't have such aggressive cut offs? I also love that people think Apple needs Adobe more than Adobe needs Apple. Take another look at the revenue for each company and the percentage of Photoshop users on OS X and THEN try saying that with a straight face.

panacea 15y ago
The PowerPC cruft you refer to is Photoshop droplets no longer working. Now I'm sure they're important for some people, but they're one tiny feature in a massive set of applications. And the functionality is still there, you just have to trigger the actions from inside Photoshop instead of creating a droplet. ...or upgrade to their latest release and "Drag your old droplets onto the Photoshop application icon. An updated version of the droplet is created in the same folder as the old one."
towndrunk 15y ago
Apple long ago told developers to move away from Carbon and move over to Cocoa. Adobe, as usual, just ignored the directive. Now I think most of Adobe's problems are in fact due to using a custom version of the PowerPlant C++ framework developed back in the System 7 days.
smackfu 15y ago
Apple barely even needs OS X. The lights are turned on by the iPhone division.
- shinratdr 15y ago
  Apple will always need a development environment for iOS, separate from iOS that 3rd party devs are comfortable with. This is why OS X will always exist in some incarnation. I would say that OS X keeps the lights on, iOS lines the coffers. Apple could easily stay afloat and be posting great quarters with only OS X, they just wouldn't be rolling in extra cash like they are now.
talmand 15y ago
Well, to be fair, does any version of Office before 2011 have the PowerPC code removed? If not it isn't a fair comparison to expect all Adobe products before CS5 to be the same as the latest version of Office. But I suppose Lion will provide Adobe with a new marketing strategy with CS6. "Update now so all your Adobe software will work with OS X Lion!" I consider most of this bickering kind of silly. To move forward you sometimes have to make OS changes that break legacy apps. To move forward you sometimes have to drop support for legacy apps. Both Apple and Adobe created this list of issues and I bet there are other applications out there with similar problems. Well, maybe not as many. It's just you're not hearing about them because of the silly fight between Apple and Adobe. It's like dealing with children who dislike each other and the fanboys are acting like the mob of children that eggs them on. Granted, there's little excuse for CS5 versions of Adobe software to fail badly when there was time to prepare. But Adobe traditionally sells major patches as point releases or new versions. Full price for CS5.5? Really?

panacea 15y ago

The PowerPC cruft you refer to is Photoshop droplets no longer working. Now I'm sure they're important for some people, but they're one tiny feature in a massive set of applications. And the functionality is still there, you just have to trigger the actions from inside Photoshop instead of creating a droplet. ...or upgrade to their latest release and "Drag your old droplets onto the Photoshop application icon. An updated version of the droplet is created in the same folder as the old one."

towndrunk 15y ago

Apple long ago told developers to move away from Carbon and move over to Cocoa. Adobe, as usual, just ignored the directive. Now I think most of Adobe's problems are in fact due to using a custom version of the PowerPlant C++ framework developed back in the System 7 days.

smackfu 15y ago

Apple barely even needs OS X. The lights are turned on by the iPhone division.

shinratdr 15y ago
Apple will always need a development environment for iOS, separate from iOS that 3rd party devs are comfortable with. This is why OS X will always exist in some incarnation. I would say that OS X keeps the lights on, iOS lines the coffers. Apple could easily stay afloat and be posting great quarters with only OS X, they just wouldn't be rolling in extra cash like they are now.

talmand 15y ago

Well, to be fair, does any version of Office before 2011 have the PowerPC code removed? If not it isn't a fair comparison to expect all Adobe products before CS5 to be the same as the latest version of Office. But I suppose Lion will provide Adobe with a new marketing strategy with CS6. "Update now so all your Adobe software will work with OS X Lion!" I consider most of this bickering kind of silly. To move forward you sometimes have to make OS changes that break legacy apps. To move forward you sometimes have to drop support for legacy apps. Both Apple and Adobe created this list of issues and I bet there are other applications out there with similar problems. Well, maybe not as many. It's just you're not hearing about them because of the silly fight between Apple and Adobe. It's like dealing with children who dislike each other and the fanboys are acting like the mob of children that eggs them on. Granted, there's little excuse for CS5 versions of Adobe software to fail badly when there was time to prepare. But Adobe traditionally sells major patches as point releases or new versions. Full price for CS5.5? Really?