04-12-2010, 08:32 PM
Tulrin wrote: 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?
I would be fine, but I am not a creative type, well that's not fair. I have limited creative output, but I tended to use non Adobe tools anyway. I had a copy of Freehand and a few versions of Canvas. Oh my, truly sad how the latter was slowly destroyed, and even sadder, I thought the last couple versions were starting to get good again (9 and X I think?). I still wish their was a nice Cocoa rewrite of Canvas for OS X. I would have forsaken the upgrade price and paid full retail for such a beast. Then again, the Freehand decline was almost equally heart wrenching.
I forgot an app, SuperPaint, loved it, I think I had a copy when Aldus took over the reigns. RIP SuperPaint.
Tulrin wrote: 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 can believe that, but I still think Adobe chose the wrong tactic to speed up Mac development. They needed to bite the bullet and push for a full rewrite. I know, I know, the Mac CS users would have howled in protest at the limited functionality of the first Cocoa version, but version 2 or 3 would have gotten better and that would have shut up the haters. Maybe.
Nathan