Adobe Introduces SoundBooth Beta, x86 Only

[pulsewidth947]

When I used a PC I used to use Cool Edit Pro, which then changed to Adobe Audition. So I'm delighted that they are creating a new product, particularly as I hate the only other real contender - Bias Peak.

I've been using Audacity, but it just not advanced enough sometimes.

 

[AHDuke99]

This demonstrates that Adobe is a bunch of morons. If they listened to Apple and used xCode they could click one button and produce a universal binary.

Perhaps Adobe writes ****** software that isn't engineered to be platform independant.

it isn't that simple, especially if their code is as outdated as i've been reading it is. hell, i am working with the poisoned p2p developers and even we are having trouble making it a universal binary. it involves much more than just clikcing a box in most cases.

 

[BenRoethig]

http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/10/30/soundbooth/index.php

Macworld posted an article on the subject today. You can read it with the link above. I'm going to post a couple comments from the article by Adobe's John Nack.

Nack offers a different point of view. From his perspective, if Apple hadn’t switched to Intel processors, Soundbooth might very likely be a Windows application only. Apple’s migration to the Intel chip architecture “makes Mac development more attractive,” said Nack.

“Here’s the reality: Apple’s migration to Intel chips means that it’s easier to develop for both Mac and Windows, because instead of splitting development resources optimizing for two different chip architectures, you can focus on just one,” he wrote.

This is why the PowerPC machines need to go as quickly as everyone can buy an Intel machine. Making a intel only Mac Application is cheaper and less time consuming for the developer and is able to take advantage of any code optimization for the x86 platform. That makes it more likey that we'll get better software products and applications we normally wouldn't get. To be frank, developers had absolutely no reason to optimize PPC applications. The platform is too small to warrant it.

The follow snippet is something the platform as a whole should take note of. It should be pretty self explanatory.

Nack — a professed “die-hard” Mac user — also refers to “that vocal little group of zealots and forum trolls” he sees as particularly damaging to Mac users’ reputations as a whole.

“You’re hurting the Mac platform. You’re hurting the Mac community. You need to crush a little aluminum foil against those antennae of yours, because you’re hurting everyone concerned. You’re making it harder (and less appealing) for people of goodwill to make the effort to support the Mac,” he said.