Comments on: Will Lack of Pro Universal Apps Hurt Apple?

By: terrin

terrin — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:56:35 +0000

Roger, I will add, that Apple has not released Towers using Intel yet. Accordingly, current pro towers do support Adobe’s current offerings. The high end G5 Towers have better (although not by much) benchmark ratings then the Core Duo processors). According to the blog article I just mentioned, by the time Apple actually ships a Pro tower, Adobe will be close to having CS3 ready.

By: terrin

terrin — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:47:29 +0000

Actually Stefan, over forty percent of Adobe’s software sales come from Mac users. Adobe clearly does not want to risk losing 40 percent of its business. In addition, Microsoft makes several hundred million dollars a year on the sale of Office for the Mac. (Both these facts can be verified by doing a Google search). That is no small bag of beans when you consider many of Microsoft’s businesses lose money (e.g. its X-Box division). In fact, it is why Microsoft gave Apple 150 million dollars in exchange for Apple stock when Apple was facing hard times. Microsoft was protecting its several hundred million dollars a year profit (It should be noted, Microsoft makes less per sale from Windows users using Office(Unless it is an education edition of the software)).

Two other points. First, Office works fine under Rosetta, with no appreciable speed hit from the last model Mac. In some cases, if you are upgrading hardware from a couple of years ago, Office runs faster under Rosetta. Accordingly, Microsoft does not need to be in a hurry to update Office.

Second, an Adobe engineer who works on the Creative suit for Mac in a blog has said Adobe is in fact working hard on brining the Creative Suite to the Mac. Doing so, however, is a major amount of work. From a business perspective, Adobe said it made more sense to not support the Intel Macs until the next major release of Creative Suite. That makes perfect sense.

I will provie the link for this (as I just read it): http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/2006/03/macintosh_and_t.html

Finally, people forget that Apple released the Intel Macs 6 months early. This is hardly enough time for developers to bring over complex aplications, especially when they were not written with Apple’s development tools.

By: stefan oetter

stefan oetter — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:57:32 +0000

I have an acquaintance that works at Adobe and he told me they were in no hurry to do the re-write…
I sell Macs (Have for 22 years) and have seen a real run now on 17″ and 20″based G5 iMacs (That I stocked up on) to my graphics customers…
I don’t think Apple will change the towers anytime soon because of the slow switchover by Adobe!

By: Roger Harris

Roger Harris — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:07:16 +0000

Stefan, Mac Office is less than 3% of MS profit but, Mac software is over 40% of Adobe’s sales.

Although most of us wait years before getting a new Mac the Publishing and graphics companies over 3 people upgrade every couple of years. Upgrading from my MDD 867 the Rozetta applications whould seem fast to me. But professional graphics folk would feel a big drag. These people will resist buying Mac towers until Adobe makes a universal suite. Only professional web, media writers and pundits care about how fast Office runs. I cannot out type Word even on an old Mac. It hardly matters that it takes awhile to open when most folk leave it open for days.

roger

By: stefan oetter

stefan oetter — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:41:09 +0000

Sales to Apple users are such a SMALL part of Adobe and Microsoft’s income, why on earth put any more effort into software production than they already did?

By: KaiserX

KaiserX — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:09:39 +0000

Reviewers and critics are spoiled. I went from a Dual 1GHz G4 (QuckSilver, which I will keep forever) to a 2GHz MacBook Pro. And I did not notice any difference in my apps running under Rosetta. But when you’re jumping from Mac to Mac like a computer whore, then yeah, I guess you would notice a difference. The comparison isn’t fair. People won’t be jumping from a curent day G5 to an Intel right away. So chill out.