04-12-2010, 08:12 PM
silvarios wrote:
Why does Adobe Photoshop fail as a Mac and a Windows app? The non native GUI hurts usability on both versions. The situation is even worse on the Mac as the refusal to use Cocoa actually degrades performance and feature integration because of Adobe's grand cross platform development scheme. Ever wonder why 64 bit PhotoShop came first to Windows. Sad really.
I think the concern on the iPhone OS is that Adobe's toolkit will always lag behind the native apps. I suppose Apple should ask Adobe to submit a CS5 compiled app and then run benchmarks against a similarly coded native app. I would be curious of the results.
Nathan
The Photoshop UI and actually the entire Adobe suite is annoying. It crashes on both platforms and it buggy... but would it improve either platform for their to be no Photoshop offering what so ever? No Illustrator? Per Steve Jobs argument it would be... what do you think?
As it currently stands if a competitor comes in and develops a better application then Adobe will have to respond, until then it is better to have Photoshop than not.
If the Mac platform had the same restrictions as has been applied to the iPhone and iPad then that is the way it would be.
As a side: Funny enough Adobe's cross-platform development strategy was adopted in response to Apple's complaints that the Mac releases were sometimes as much as 6 months after the Windows releases.
I would also be interested in seeing some side-by-side comparisons of benchmarks but you cannot count on Apple being honest with that based on past situations where they fudged benchmarks. I am sure someone will run benchmarks in the near future since anyone can do so, it does not take Apple to do it.
I still believe the real issue here is that if Apple lets Adobe bring its developer base to the iPhone using Flash to create iPhone apps they will lose some level of control. No company wants to give up that level of control to a third party... and given Apple and Adobe's history it makes sense.
If the issue really was about "quality" then Apple should remove about half of the current apps since many of them are pretty bad.