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Future Versions of Adobe Creative Suite to Drop PowerPC Support

HyperZboy said:
Why should I be FORCED to upgrade when it shouldn't be necessary?
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Who's forcing you? Who?

Your machine works. It works today - it will be just as fast and just as capable as it is today, the day Snow Leopard is released and the day CS5 hits the shelves.

What about your machine is going to stop functioning the day CS5 or Snow Leopard are released?
 
djellison said:
Who's forcing you? Who?

Your machine works. It works today - it will be just as fast and just as capable as it is today, the day Snow Leopard is released and the day CS5 hits the shelves.

What about your machine is going to stop functioning the day CS5 or Snow Leopard are released?
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1) People buy computers for their forward capabilities. If they didn't, we'd have a bunch of small niche platforms around, like Amiga, Commodore, Atari, etc. People buy the iPhone because it has Apps today and Apps tomorrow. People don't buy as many Pre's because it has few Apps today, and no promise of more tomorrow. No one would find much value in an iPhone that only runs Apps made as of January 1, 2009, and would never run an app that comes out tomorrow. People buy the future.

2) Security Updates will stop working for those with Tiger the day Snow Leopard ships. This statement is to establish that Apple's FORWARD decisions do IN FACT impact the usefulness of a computer bought a few years ago. So stop attacking people as if they are fools.

Anyone who owns a computer is going to be upset when the company stops supporting the product before the end of a reason useful lifetime. In fact, it isn't much different than being unhappy that HD-DVD movies are no longer being made, so your players' value is diminished. The only difference is, Apple told PPC buyers to continue buying, because there was a happy 'Universal' future for everybody. Then they killed the baby.
 
...if you haven't upgraded your workstation in four years, you're probably not in a rush to upgrade your software, either.
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Actually, I don't agree with this, but then it's not the first time that I've disagreed with that idiot Nack. I've kept my software (at least that that I regularly use) up to date, even though I'm running a PowerMac. But the writing's been on the wall since Apple announced the transition to Intel, and I'm happy now to upgrade the hardware anyway. And any software, except CS. Looking for a decent Illy replacement and a PS replacement that isn't as bloated as Adobe's offering, and I'll be quite happy to give Adobe the flip.
 
Xian Zhu Xuande said:
Seems like a reasonable move.


The people pitching fits about this will generally be the ones who pirate the software. Even development firms would be phasing out any PPC computers left at this point, simply because the speed increase would be more valuable to them.
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Shoot I am so poor and CS4 is so expensive I can't even afford to pirate it. :D
 
Pomares said:
Have you found a good alternative to Illustrator?
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(I couldn't see where anyone had answered this from a few pages back, sorry if it's duplicate).

I like inkscape. Which is free and very good. Can be rough around the edges (X11), but is not too buggy and is quite intuitive with plenty of features. The main thing I'd like that Illustrator has is being able to open and export a larger variety of file formats; still enough to get by though. Definitely worth a try.
 
mikes63737 said:
I wish the world could have dropped IE6 as quickly as we're dropping PPC.
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Well you see, that right there is the difference. 'We' aren't dropping PPC. Apple is dropping PowerPC. The 'world' would rather keep things working until 'world' is ready to drop it. Kudos to Microsoft for making promises, and keeping them.
 
Amdahl said:
Well you see, that right there is the difference. 'We' aren't dropping PPC. Apple is dropping PowerPC. The 'world' would rather keep things working until 'world' is ready to drop it. Kudos to Microsoft for making promises, and keeping them.
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well here's the catch. Apple said when they released the first Intels that PPC support was going to be phased out. and sooner rather than later. which is a good move cause then companies could update. that some companies (like Intuit) haven't isn't Apple's fault.

but to that end, they haven't completely dropped PPC. this go around you can install Rosetta if you need it. when we get to 10.7 I suspect that it won't even be optional but that's probably a good two years away.

and lets not forget that Leopard is still a functioning OS (heck I know some folks that are still on Panther). those peeps still with a PPC will still be able to use it just fine until that machine goes belly up. at which point it will be way more cost effective to buy a new machine than to fix their old one
 
charlituna said:
well here's the catch. Apple said when they released the first Intels that PPC support was going to be phased out. and sooner rather than later.
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No they didn't.

I'm looking forward to all the screaming in a month when Intel owners find out that they won't be booting a 64-bit OS on their 64-bit machine, because Apple decided to 'drop' them. Or they won't be getting any OpenCL GPU acceleration because Apple has decided not to support their card.

Go Hackintosh, or you're a sucka!
 
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