comp.sys.mac.advocacy

In article ,
"Daniel Johnson" wrote:

> "ZnU" wrote in message
> news:znu-85FC01.00361404042008@news.individual.net...
> > In article ,
> > "Daniel Johnson" wrote:
> >> I'm really quite surprised they'd do this, given than they wouldn't do it
> >> back in the late nineties.
> >
> > I don't mean to say I told you so, but, well... I told you so.
>
> You did. And you seem to have said so by accident, but we'll let that pass.

I told you *in this specific context* (getting Photoshop to be 64-bit)
that "The notion that Adobe would abandon the platform is ludicrous.
They're far more likely to just bite the bullet and rewrite Photoshop."

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/msg/84a645503e6dd39d

Precisely what seems "accidental" to you about this? I think the other
arguments I also advanced for a Photoshop rewrite may have confused you.

[snip]

> What they are saying is still pissing off their Mac users, who don't like
> being left behind like this. But they are also letting themselves in for a
> lot of work, and apparently they know it. And for what gain?

Um... for having a 64-bit (and probably otherwise much more modern) app
for the platform that 75% of Creative Suite users use?

> > Let's see if they'll also take this opportunity to port Photoshop on
> > both the Mac and on Windows to the new cross-platform framework they're
> > using in Lightroom. I rather suspect that has always been on their
> > long-term roadmap anyway.
>
> I really doubt that.

Of course you do, because you have some irrational notion that major app
rewrites are always a bad idea, even for codebases a couple of decades
old, written with assumptions that are no longer true and using legacy
platform technologies.

[snip]

> I think it should simply have stayed 32-bit on the Mac, rather than porting
> to Cocoa. If Adobe had done just that, there would still be greater parity
> between Mac and Windows Photoshop than there is between Mac and Windows
> Office.

Yeah, writing *good* software is too much work. developers vendors
should just do whatever is easiest. It's really such a shame that Adobe
is actually willing to invest some effort in its product.

[snip]

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