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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Unsupported on OS X Snow Leopard

Bubba Satori said:
Yeah, like they did with Shake. :rolleyes:
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Well, Apple bought off companies to make the Logic and Final Cut suites, as well as Aperture.

If Apple bought Adobe, they'd have the corner on the entire professional development market. Sure, there would be name changes across the board, and the application icons would actually look like something (not to mention interface simplifications), but the core would still be the software on which people have come to rely.

Oh, and there wouldn't be Windows versions anymore. Coming full circle, eh? :p Can you say 30% marketshare?
 
Bubba Satori said:
The way that Apple is supporting PPC users in SL ? Fail.
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The last brand new G5 was sold 4 years ago.

Creative Suite 2 started selling April 2005.

Leopard released 26 October 2007.

You're telling me that Adobe couldn't be stuffed about releasing a set of updates so that people could keep running CS2 with their copy of Leopard?

You're trying to tell me that Apple supporting hardware for FOUR YEARS is some how comparable to Adobe who kicks its customers to the curb after 2 years?
 
gmcalpin said:
I *LOVE* CS4. Photoshop CS3–CS4 is a good (arguably not "major") upgrade, Illustrator's Blob Brush is great (although it could be improved upon), the new UI is a big improvement, and Flash CS4 is wonderful if you want to work with AI files, not draw everything in Flash.
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WHAT?! The new UI is a frickin' disaster, with that outrageously silly nonstandard menubar, horrible tabs functionality, and expose breakage. Adobe insists on implementing their own crappy window implementations which breaks everything. Head on over to Adobe UI Gripes for some laughs, or tears, depending on how you look at it.
 
And then Adobe wonders why people are so keen to pirate it's software. They pulled this same stunt with CS2 and Leopard.

Poor Adobe, limited resources - cry me a fracking river.

Anybody else recognize the "oh, we have limited resources" bullcrap line Adobe is recycling from Microsoft and VBA in Office 2008?
 
Adobe is overrated anyway, there are getting to be more and more software that does the same thing for far less.
 
j-Phone said:
Anyone who is actually using their Mac's for any kind of mulitimedia functions (Music, video, graphics) knows not to upgrade to the newest OS. It always takes manufactures a long time to upgrade their software for the new OS.

You'll be all happy with your new OS:D and will quickly find out that none of your software, or plugins will work. :eek:

My rule of thumb is to stay one OS behind the curve. It's better to actually get work done, rather than being the first one to always have to have the newest and greatest!
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Agreed. Unless, of course, you (have to) buy a new machine.
 
Bubba Satori said:
Are you deliberately not reading the posts where people say their CS3 is working with SL.

Did someone plant a mass hysteria script in the Macrumors forum this morning ?

Untwist the panties, girls. :D
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That's not the point - the point is that Adobe isn't lifting a single finger to support CS3 on Snow Leopard moving forward. So it may work for now, it may break with some 10.6.x update, and Adobe doesn't give a damn.
 
It better be working! I agree that CS3 is still relatively fresh software and has probably quite a big number of users. And if Adobe prioritizes customer support then this IS part of the 'CS3 customer' support.

That said, I have no problem waiting with the upgrade till the CS5.
 
njfuzzy said:
This has me really angry. It's hard not to swear.

It comes down to this. I use Photoshop, a lot. I pay for it, and buy an upgrade every other version or so usually.

This week, I would very much like to install the mid-range (not earth-shaking) OS update from Apple. However, in order to do so and have Photoshop work, I need to pay Adobe $200 to upgrade?

I really feel that Adobe should support recent versions of their major software, on all but the most ground-breaking OS updates. With upgrades for single apps costing $200, it's especially ridiculous. The OS update is only $29!
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CS3 works fine. As for future updates of SL breaking it . . . he who worries before it is necessary, worries more than necessary.
 
Tallest Skil said:
Well, Apple bought off companies to make the Logic and Final Cut suites, as well as Aperture.

If Apple bought Adobe, they'd have the corner on the entire professional development market. Sure, there would be name changes across the board, and the application icons would actually look like something (not to mention interface simplifications), but the core would still be the software on which people have come to rely.
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Remember when MS bought Softimage all those years ago to get 3D developers to start porting apps to NT and how that spurred the growth of content creation on the PC side and away from horridly expensive Silicon Graphics hardware ? Apple buying Adobe would have the opposite effect, I'm afraid.


Tallest Skil said:
Can you say 30% marketshare?
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I can say 30% market share, but Apple won't unless they come out with an $1,100 i7 tower like a lot of my Mac desktop customers are upgrading to from their old G5 towers.


$799 mini------------The Great Void-------------$2,499 Quad w/3GB&Nvidia130
 
Its not like people have said it doesnt work at all. Its something they could fix in a simple update had they would just get off their lazy asses once in a while.
 
Bubba Satori said:
Remember when MS bought Softimage all those years ago to get 3D developers to start porting apps to NT and how that spurred the growth of content creation on the PC side and away from horridly expensive Silicon Graphics hardware ? Apple buying Adobe would have the opposite effect, I'm afraid.
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I disagree. I feel that people would stick with what they know, and if the applications remained inherently the same (with the same capabilities and power for doing what they do now), they'd migrate.

Microsoft would scramble to make their own analog to the now-Mac-only Creative Suite, but I think that people would stick with the former Adobe apps.

I can say 30% market share, but Apple won't unless they come out with an $1,100 i7 tower like a lot of my Mac desktop customers are upgrading to from their old G5 towers.
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Again, I don't know. I feel that the draw to the "necessity" of keeping the applications would be great enough that people would buy iMacs (newly pro-ized) or Mac Pros to do what they need to do.
 
Xian Zhu Xuande said:
When Adobe stops supporting their software like this various annoying (and sometimes highly frustrating) bugs begin to crop up.
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Don't install 10.6, problem solved.

Why do people feel entitled to install whatever Apple's latest, incompatible OS upgrade is -- and then criticize companies (that they haven't spent a dime at for years) for not immediately providing free patches?

Are you expecting Apple/Adobe to provide the kind of backwards compatibility that you find in Microsoft Windows?
 
duncanapple said:
I am all for going the legit route, but if something breaks with SL/CS3, I will not be buying another $1700 suite of programs that only works for 2.5 years. I will be stealing (yes stealing lol) a copy of CS4.
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I'm working on that as we speak. I've always paid for my software and I don't think it's too much to ask Adobe to support my $1700 investment in their software. They WILL be supporting it, whether they like it or not (I'm downloading CS4 right now).
 
*LTD* said:
CS3 works fine. As for future updates of SL breaking it . . . he who worries before it is necessary, worries more than necessary.
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You're absolutely right - I'm going back to CS4 bootleg disk images and keygens running on Darwine. Since Adobe couldn't bother to keep up CS3 compatibility, nor release a 64-bit version of CS4, I just have "limited resources" and won't be paying for it should the need for it arise.
 
Bubba Satori said:
Remember when MS bought Softimage all those years ago to get 3D developers to start porting apps to NT and how that spurred the growth of content creation on the PC side and away from horridly expensive Silicon Graphics hardware ? Apple buying Adobe would have the opposite effect, I'm afraid.




I can say 30% market share, but Apple won't unless they come out with an $1,100 i7 tower like a lot of my Mac desktop customers are upgrading to from their old G5 towers.


$799 mini------------The Great Void-------------$2,499 Quad w/3GB&Nvidia130
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While I agree they need a middle of the road tower (Maybe just the "Mac", or "Mac Lite"), in Apple's eyes, they would offer you the iMac.
 
FoxyKaye said:
And then Adobe wonders why people are so keen to pirate it's software.
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The impression of bad behavior is hardly a reason to break the law. If you don't like their policies or behavior, simply don't use their products.

If I was adobe management and had to hear "Well, we can allocate a team of six additional developers to CS5, or to support CS3 I know which way I'd go. Heck, even "We can move two folks over to CS5 if we don't have to patch CS3" would make it an easy choice. If I were a shareholder, it'd be an even easier choice- it's not like Adobe charges for annual maintenance.
 
Bubba Satori said:
Remember when MS bought Softimage all those years ago to get 3D developers to start porting apps to NT and how that spurred the growth of content creation on the PC side and away from horridly expensive Silicon Graphics hardware ? Apple buying Adobe would have the opposite effect, I'm afraid.




I can say 30% market share, but Apple won't unless they come out with an $1,100 i7 tower like a lot of my Mac desktop customers are upgrading to from their old G5 towers.


$799 mini------------The Great Void-------------$2,499 Quad w/3GB&Nvidia130
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The Great Void=iMac. Powerful enough for virtually every application, even professional ones. Only the most serious daily/heavy video/sound editors will find the iMac too underpowered. Stop acting like there is a void between the Mini and the Pro because there just isn't. So you are forced to buy (a fairly decent) built-in LCD. Big deal. They could charge the exact same amount but leave the LCD off and make it in a smaller enclosure. Then you could hook your ugly Samsung or HP monitor up to it and end up paying more overall because you had to buy the monitor. Would that make you happy? Wait--don't answer that.
 
FoxyKaye said:
You're absolutely right - I'm going back to CS4 bootleg disk images and keygens running on Darwine. Since Adobe couldn't bother to keep up CS3 compatibility, nor release a 64-bit version of CS4, I just have "limited resources" and won't be paying for it should the need for it arise.
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Well, that's one way of making a statement . . . yarrr!
 
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