Adobe and Apple, is it all over

[Roger Howard]

On Fri, October 6, 2006 12:18 pm, David Zhou wrote:
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> On Oct 6, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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>> <http://www.invbiznews.com/wordpress/adobe-and-apple-is-it-all-over/>
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>> "We think that this is a serious miscalculation by Adobe ..."
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>  From the link:
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> "Apple already demonstrated that the technology built into new Macs
> with Quartz Extreme and Core image would make developing a similar
> product to Photoshop trivial for Apple."
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> Um, no.  Not at all trivial.  In fact, stupidly hard.

Other than rehashing an old worry, I don't see anything much to speak to
in this article. Adobe is, as far as anyone knows, on track with updating
its products to Universal binaries, so nothing has changed there. It may
still be further out than we'd like, but that's been known for about a
year.

And what does Contribute have to do with it? Or rather, how does the
recent release change any of this? I don't get the connection, but I've
been known to be dense!

-Rh

And yeah, the suggestion that CI and QE will make Photoshop development
easier is simply asinine. Adobe has its own x-platform imaging engine, and
if anything, supporting these OSX-only features would make things harder
on them, not easier, and is very unlikely to happen. At very best, maybe
we'll someday see Photoshop plugins that bridge into CI, but not from
Adobe I'm sure.