[X4U] Apple dumping OSX....Slow Adobe

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:12 AM +0000 2/18/06, Stroller wrote:
>On 17 Feb 2006, at 19:41, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>... When is CS3 going to ship?  OK, looks like it's getting
>>ready to ship in late spring/early summer based on what I just pulled up on
>>Google.  Is 2007 when CS4 will ship?
>>...
>>Having said this, personally I won't be upgrading my copy of Adobe CS
>>Premium until they're shipping a Universal Binary.  I don't make any money
>>out of the content that I create using Adobe CS, so I skipped the CS2 upgrade
>>(CS3 was a definite possibility as I usually do every other upgrade, but now
>>I'll wait).
>
>"Adobe today said it would not deliver native Intel versions of 
>currently shipping professional products and that customers would 
>have to wait until future major releases... for native Intel Mac 
>support. ... Adobe declined to provide specific release dates--per 
>company policy--but pointed to its "consistent track record of 
>releasing significant upgrades" every 18 to 24 months. Adobe's 
>Creative Suite 2 was release in April of 2005."
>
>http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/02/01/adobes.mac.commitment/

While I realize a lot of people don't feel this way, for me this is 
good news, as it pushes my purchase further out.  More time to save 
up money for an upgrade that I quite honestly can't justify :^) 
Universal Binaries will really be my main justification for upgrading 
from Adobe CS Premium.

		Zane


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