Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
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.
That's probably a lot of it. Also, I'll bet that they are still using
Carbon instead of Cocoa. Since Adobe didn't bother very much on the OS
X switch, the codebase is way behind and getting further behind by the day.
absolutely nothing about the portability of assembly code between
operating systems for the same hardware architecture. Andrew, help me
out here?
Well, the assembly code kernels are actually probably the easiest. They
have well-defined inputs and outputs and could simply be subcontracted.
Even if they had some problems, more plugins can be added later. The
base application is what is giving them the issues.
Of course, they used the same excuses above for Soundbooth as they did
for why there's not an Universal binary Photoshop.
If you look at the Soundbooth discussion, there was a comment that
Soundbooth is a "latency-sensitive" application. I don't know *why* it
should be, but that is the claim.
Therefore, the programmers are going to A) tie the program to the
low-level, real-time sound interfaces (CoreAudio for Mac; ??? for Win)
and B) demand a stupidly fast machine. There really is no point in even
bothering with the PPC machines. <cue rant about Apple's crappy
chipsets for PPC>
Honestly, I think there are some issues inside Adobe...
Well, yes. Adobe is basically Photoshop and PDF export for Microsoft.
PDF export is under attack as OpenOffice proliferates. Photoshop is
basically flat. It's why they bought Macromedia. And now Flash is
under attack because IE7 just improved Javascript support. Oops.
They have three problems with Mac Photoshop:
A) They have a code and build base which is two generations behind and
will require an investment they are not likely to get returned any time
soon.
B) They have a limited number of useful OS X/Cocoa programmers and
hiring new ones is likely to be expensive
C) They see the relative sizes of the Windows and Mac markets
Honestly, every MBA in Adobe is probably screaming to dump everything
Mac. And, truthfully, they're probably right.
It is likely that the only thing stopping this is that Adobe is afraid
that if they concede ground, Apple may step in. Apple has shown that it
is more than willing to do this. Look at how aggressively Apple has
gone after the video editing market. Adobe can't be happy about that.
Gimp is actually pretty functional. If Apple licensed a CMYK engine and
gave Gimp a native Cocoa UI polish, Adobe would suddenly have to contend
with Apple peeling away users from their Photoshop cash cow.
Think what would happen if every Mac suddenly came with a Photoshop-like
application. It would be the death of Adobe.
-a
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