On Nov 7, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:51:13PM -0800:Stewart Stremler wrote:Why can't they use Macs?Because Adobe has decided to drop native support for Macs?Oh, that's right, I heard something about that. Scum.
A lot of that is because they're covering their asses WRT the fact that they're probably STILL using CodeWarrior to develop their Mac applications.
CodeWarrior was possible the best (and, for a long time, the only) development suite available for Mac, but they stuck their heads in the sand as far as OS X is concerned. On top of that, there is very likely a sizable amount of AltiVec-optimized code (and/or PPC assembly code) that precludes an easy port to Intel Macs, let alone the conversion from CodeWarrior (or whatever Adobe was using) to Xcode/gcc.
That's all code that gets to be re-written and re-optimized. Completely ignoring the fact that they might very well be able to lift a lot of the assembly code from the Windows product, and the fact that I know absolutely nothing about the portability of assembly code between operating systems for the same hardware architecture. Andrew, help me out here?
Or, is there now an OS X Photoshop that runs natively on x86 rather thanin emulation?No idea.
No, there isn't, for reasons listed above.Stupidly, however, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (akin to saying Microsoft Word Paint) is a Universal binary, whereas Adobe Soundbooth is Intel-only (and possibly the first and only Intel-only Mac application, period.)
Of course, they used the same excuses above for Soundbooth as they did for why there's not an Universal binary Photoshop.
Honestly, I think there are some issues inside Adobe...Also, it didn't help that Quark basically told Mac users to go pound sand and use Windows if they wanted a recent version. Amazing how they're now releasing the next version as a Mac app, too...
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